A Fusarium graminearum xylanase expressed during wheat infection is a necrotizing factor but is not essential for virulence

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-10

  Sella, Luca ^a   Gazzetti, Katia ^a,d   Faoro, Franco ^b   Odorizzi, Silvana ^a   D'Ovidio, Renato ^c   Schäfer, Wilhelm ^d   Favaron, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fusarium graminearum; Fusarium head blight; Gene disruption; Necrotizing factor; Triticum aestivum; Xylanase

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ENDO 1,4 BETA XYLANASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL WALL; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PICHIA; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; VIRULENCE; WHEAT;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL DEATH; CELL WALL; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FUNGAL; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MUTATION; PICHIA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; POLYSACCHARIDES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRICHOTHECENES; TRITICUM; VIRULENCE;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; HYPOCREA JECORINA; PICHIA PASTORIS; TRICHODERMA VIRIDE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84872672052     PISSN: 09819428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2012.12.008     Document Type: Article

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