The Homeobox BcHOX8 Gene in Botrytis Cinerea Regulates Vegetative Growth and Morphology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Antal, Zsuzsanna ^a   Rascle, Christine ^a   Cimerman, Agnès ^b   Viaud, Muriel ^b   Billon Grand, Geneviève ^a   Choquer, Mathias ^a   Bruel, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BCHOX8 GENE; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; COLONY FORMATION; CONIDIUM; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOMEOBOX; HYDROPHOBICITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

BOTRYTIS; DNA PRIMERS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENOME, FUNGAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 84868131357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048134     Document Type: Article

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