Infection structure-specific expression of β-1,3-glucan synthase is essential for pathogenicity of Colletotrichum graminicola and evasion of β-Glucan-triggered immunity in maize

Plant Cell

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2356-2378

  Oliveira Garcia, Ely ^a   Deising, Holger B ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; GLOMERELLA GRAMINICOLA; ZEA MAYS;

BETA 1,3 GLUCAN; BETA GLUCAN; BETA-1,3-GLUCAN; ECHINOCANDIN; FKS1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GLUCAN SYNTHASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CLASSIFICATION; COLLETOTRICHUM; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VIRULENCE;

BETA-GLUCANS; CELL WALL; COLLETOTRICHUM; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ECHINOCANDINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HYPHAE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; VIRULENCE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84880930197     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: 1532298X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.103499     Document Type: Article

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