The hemibiotrophic cacao pathogen Moniliophthora perniciosa depends on a mitochondrial alternative oxidase for biotrophic development

New Phytologist

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1025-1034

  Thomazella, Daniela P T ^a   Teixeira, Paulo José P L ^a   Oliveira, Halley C ^a   Saviani, Elzira E ^a   Rincones, Johana ^a   Toni, Isabella M ^a   Reis, Osvaldo ^a   Garcia, Odalys ^a   Meinhardt, Lyndel W ^b   Salgado, Ione ^a   Pereira, Gonçalo A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative oxidase (AOX); Cacao (Theobroma cacao); Hemibiotrophic; Moniliophthora perniciosa; Nitric oxide (NO); Phase transition; Witches' broom disease (WBD)

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE OXIDASE; AZOXYSTROBIN; METHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; SALICYLAMIDE DERIVATIVE; SALICYLHYDROXAMIC ACID; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CYTOCHROME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVERGREEN TREE; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENOME; INHIBITION; LIFE CYCLE; PATHOGENICITY; PHASE TRANSITION; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

AGARICALES; ARTICLE; CACAO; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MYCELIUM; PLANT DISEASE; UPREGULATION;

AGARICALES; CACAO; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; METHACRYLATES; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MYCELIUM; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PYRIMIDINES; SALICYLAMIDES; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; MONILIOPHTHORA; THEOBROMA CACAO; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 84860498447     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04119.x     Document Type: Article

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