Natural Variation in the VELVET Gene bcvel1 Affects Virulence and Light-Dependent Differentiation in Botrytis cinerea

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Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Schumacher, Julia ^a   Pradier, Jean Marc ^b   Simon, Adeline ^b   Traeger, Stefanie ^a   Moraga, Javier ^c   Collado, Isidro González ^c   Viaud, Muriel ^b   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; AMMONIUM TRANSPORTER; BOTCINIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLYCOSIDASE; OXALIC ACID; PLANT TOXIN; PROTEINASE; SUGAR; SUGAR TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BCVEL1 GENE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PLANT TISSUE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VELVET GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BOTRYTIS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; LIGHT; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUTATION; OXALIC ACID; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; POLYKETIDES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA;

EID: 84868286241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047840     Document Type: Article

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