Different chitin synthase genes are required for various developmental and plant infection processes in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kong, Ling An ^a,b   Yang, Jun ^a   Li, Guo Tian ^b   Qi, Lin Lu ^a   Zhang, Yu Jun ^a   Wang, Chen Fang ^b   Zhao, Wen Sheng ^a   Xu, Jin Rong ^b   Peng, You Liang ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE;

APPRESSORIUM; ARTICLE; CONIDIOGENESIS; CONIDIUM; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENE CHS1; FUNGAL GENE CHS5; FUNGAL GENE CHS6; FUNGAL GENE CHS7; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; MUCILAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CELL; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT INFECTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HORDEUM; HYPHAE; MAGNAPORTHE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPORES, FUNGAL; VIRULENCE;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE;

EID: 84860910461     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002526     Document Type: Article

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