A penicillium expansum glucose oxidase-encoding gene, GOX2, is essential for gluconic acid production and acidification during colonization of deciduous fruit

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 779-788

  Barad, Shiri ^a,c   Horowitz, Sigal Brown ^a   Moskovitch, Oren ^a   Lichter, Amnon ^a   Sherman, Amir ^b   Prusky, Dov ^a  

^a Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce ^*  (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; GLUCONIC ACID; GLUCOSE OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PYRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

FRUIT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUCONATES; GLUCOSE OXIDASE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PENICILLIUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PYRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, FUNGAL;

PENICILLIUM EXPANSUM;

EID: 84860694158     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-01-12-0002     Document Type: Article

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