Global aspects of pacC regulation of pathogenicity genes in colletotrichum gloeosporioides as revealed by transcriptome analysis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1345-1358

  Alkan, Noam ^a   Meng, Xiangchun ^b,c   Friedlander, Gilgi ^a   Reuveni, Eli ^a   Sukno, Serenella ^d   Sherman, Amir ^b   Thon, Michael ^d   Fluhr, Robert ^a   Prusky, Dov ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COLLETOTRICHUM; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FRUIT; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PERSEA; PH; PLANT DISEASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

COLLETOTRICHUM; DOWN-REGULATION; FRUIT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENOME, FUNGAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PERSEA; PLANT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84885633664     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-03-13-0080-R     Document Type: Article

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