BcAtf1, a global regulator, controls various differentiation processes and phytotoxin production in Botrytis cinerea

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 704-718

  Temme, Nora ^a   Oeser, Birgitt ^a   Massaroli, Michelli ^b   Heller, Jens ^a   Simon, Adeline ^c   González Collado, Isidro ^b   Viaud, Muriel ^c   Tudzynski, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^c INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MYCOTOXIN;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BOTRYTIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FABACEAE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BOTRYTIS; FABACEAE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOTOXINS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861461257     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2011.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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