Transcriptional regulation of the genes encoding chitin and β-1,3-glucan synthases from ustilago maydis

Current Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-90

  Robledo Briones, Mariana ^a   Ruiz Herrera, José ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,3 BETA GLUCAN SYNTHASE; CHITIN SYNTHASE; FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHS GENE; CHS1 GENE; CHS2 GENE; CHS3 GENE; CHS4 GENE; CHS5 GENE; CHS6 GENE; CHS7 GENE; CHS8 GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GLS GENE; GROWTH CURVE; IONIC STRESS; MAIZE; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHYSICAL STRESS; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEEDLING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; USTILAGO MAYDIS; YEAST;

BETA-GLUCANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; PLANT DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; USTILAGO; ZEA MAYS;

USTILAGO MAYDIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84862772935     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-012-0129-0     Document Type: Article

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