The ATF/CREB transcription factor Atf1 is essential for full virulence, deoxynivalenol production, and stress tolerance in the cereal pathogen fusarium graminearum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1379-1394

  Van Nguyen, Thuat ^a   Kröger, Cathrin ^a   Bönnighausen, Jakob ^a   Schäfer, Wilhelm ^a   Bormann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE; VOMITOXIN; ZEARALENONE;

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHYPODIUM; CELL NUCLEUS; CEREAL; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INFLORESCENCE; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SECONDARY METABOLISM; VIRULENCE; WHEAT;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRACHYPODIUM; CELL NUCLEUS; CEREALS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INFLORESCENCE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT DISEASES; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRICHOTHECENES; TRITICUM; VIRULENCE; ZEA MAYS; ZEARALENONE;

EID: 84887065415     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-04-13-0125-R     Document Type: Article

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