The velvet complex governs mycotoxin production and virulence of Fusarium oxysporum on plant and mammalian hosts

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-65

  López Berges, Manuel S ^a,b,e   Hera, Concepción ^a,b   Sulyok, Michael ^c   Schäfer, Katja ^a,b   Capilla, Javier ^d   Guarro, Josep ^d   Di Pietro, Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario ceiA3 ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAUVERICIN; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; PROTEIN LAEA; PROTEIN VEA; PROTEIN VELB; PROTEIN VELC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMATO; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; VEA GENE; VELB GENE; VELC GENE;

ANIMALS; DEPSIPEPTIDES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOTOXINS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIDEROPHORES; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84871414674     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12082     Document Type: Article

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