Deciphering the Cryptic Genome: Genome-wide Analyses of the Rice Pathogen Fusarium fujikuroi Reveal Complex Regulation of Secondary Metabolism and Novel Metabolites

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Wiemann, Philipp ^a,h   Sieber, Christian M K ^b   von Bargen, Katharina W ^a   Studt, Lena ^a   Niehaus, Eva Maria ^a   Espino, Jose J ^a   Huß, Kathleen ^a   Michielse, Caroline B ^a   Albermann, Sabine ^a   Wagner, Dominik ^a   Bergner, Sonja V ^a   Connolly, Lanelle R ^c   Fischer, Andreas ^d   Reuter, Gunter ^d   Kleigrewe, Karin ^a   Bald, Till ^a   Wingfield, Brenda D ^e   Ophir, Ron ^f   Freeman, Stanley ^f   Hippler, Michael ^a   Smith, Kristina M ^c   Brown, Daren W ^g   Proctor, Robert H ^g   Münsterkötter, Martin ^b   Freitag, Michael ^c   Humpf, Hans Ulrich ^a   Güldener, Ulrich ^b   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^f VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIBBERELLIN; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; FOURIER TRANSFORM MASS SPECTROMETRY; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM FUJIKUROI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; TRANSPOSON;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES;

FUNGI; FUSARIA; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI;

EID: 84879514195     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003475     Document Type: Article

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