Indole derivative production by the root endophyte piriformospora indica is not required for growth promotion but for biotrophic colonization of barley roots

New Phytologist

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 520-534

  Hilbert, Magdalena ^a   Voll, Lars M ^b   Ding, Yi ^a   Hofmann, Jörg ^b   Sharma, Monica ^c   Zuccaro, A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Dr YSP UHF ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Biotrophy; Codon optimized GFP; Growth promotion; Hordeum vulgare (barley); IAA; ILA; Piriformospora indica; RNAi silencing of piTam1

Indexed keywords

INDOLE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE-3-LACTIC ACID; INDOLEACETIC ACID; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; INDOLELACTIC ACID; PHYTOHORMONE; TRYPTOPHAN;

BARLEY; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENDOPHYTE; FLUORESCENCE; GROWTH REGULATOR; HORMONE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; ROOT COLONIZATION; SIGNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BASIDIOMYCETES; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORDEUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SYMBIOSIS; TOMATO;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENDOPHYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; HORDEUM; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; INDOLES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPTOPHAN;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; PIRIFORMOSPORA INDICA;

EID: 84866403461     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04275.x     Document Type: Article

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