FcStuA from Fusarium culmorum Controls Wheat Foot and Root Rot in a Toxin Dispensable Manner

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Pasquali, Matias ^a   Spanu, Francesca ^b   Scherm, Barbara ^b   Balmas, Virgilio ^b   Hoffmann, Lucien ^a   Hammond Kosack, Kim E ^c   Beyer, Marco ^a   Migheli, Quirico ^b  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINAN; AZOGALACTAN; CATALASE; EPOXICONAZOLE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGICIDE; FUSARIUM CULMORUM STUA PROTEIN; GALACTAN; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; ISOPYRAZAM; PECTIN; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYGALACTURONIC ACID; TEBUCONAZOLE; TRIFLOXYSTROBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOMITOXIN; XYLAN;

ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FOOT AND ROOT ROT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; FUSARIUM CULMORUM STUA GENE; FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GLYCOLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; WHEAT; WILD TYPE;

CATALASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MUTATION; MYCOTOXINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; TRICHOTHECENES; TRITICUM;

EID: 84874289544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057429     Document Type: Article

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