Fungal Secondary Metabolites: Ancient Toxins and Novel Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Effectors in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 377-400

  Collemare, Jérôme ^a   Lebrun, Marc Henri ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACE1 gene cluster; Ancient toxins, novel effectors; Fungal SMs; Fungal SMs, as effectors; Genes key enzymes; Necrotrophic plant fungi; Plant fungal associations; Plant microbe; SMs, bioactive molecules

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886849034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119949138.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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