The MAT Locus Genes Play Different Roles in Sexual Reproduction and Pathogenesis in Fusarium graminearum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Zheng, Qian ^a   Hou, Rui ^a,b   Juanyu, ^a   Zhang, ^a   Ma, Jiwen ^a   Wu, Zhongshou ^a   Wang, Guanghui ^a,b   Wang, Chenfang ^a   Xu, Jin Rong ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; MAT GENE; MAT1-1-1 GENE; MAT1-1-2 GENE; MAT1-1-3 GENE; MAT12-1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PLANT STEM; PROMOTER REGION; SO GENE; SPOROGENESIS;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; HYPHAE; PHEROMONES; PLANT DISEASES; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; REPRODUCTION; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; ZEA MAYS;

GIBBERELLA ZEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84879471851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066980     Document Type: Article

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