Role of nitrogen-metabolism genes expressed during pathogenicity of the alkalinizing Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and their differential expression in acidifying pathogens

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1251-1263

  Miyara, I ^a,b   Shnaiderman, C ^a,b   Meng, X ^c   Vargas, W A ^d   Diaz Minguez, J M ^d   Sherman, A ^a   Thon, M ^d   Prusky, D ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARRIER PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PH; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMMONIA; ASCOMYCOTA; CARRIER PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PHYLOGENY;

ALTERNARIA; BOTRYTIS; COLLETOTRICHUM; FUNGI; GLOMERELLA CINGULATA; PENICILLIUM; SCLEROTINIA; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 84864689213     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-01-12-0017-R     Document Type: Article

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