Functional Roles of FgLaeA in Controlling Secondary Metabolism, Sexual Development, and Virulence in Fusarium graminearum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Kim, Hee Kyoung ^a   Lee, Seunghoon ^a   Jo, Seong Mi ^a   McCormick, Susan P ^b   Butchko, Robert A E ^b   Proctor, Robert H ^b   Yun, Sung Hwan ^a  

^a Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; PROTEIN LAEA; PROTEIN VEA; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LAEA GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRI6 GENE; WILD TYPE; ZEB2 GENE;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84880492594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068441     Document Type: Article

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