ProA, a transcriptional regulator of fungal fruiting body development, regulates leaf hyphal network development in the Epichloë festucae-Lolium perenne symbiosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 551-568

  Tanaka, Aiko ^a,b   Cartwright, Gemma M ^b   Saikia, Sanjay ^b,d   Kayano, Yuka ^a   Takemoto, Daigo ^a,b   Kato, Masashi ^c   Tsuge, Takashi ^a   Scott, Barry ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PROA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AXENIC CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EF320 GENE; EPICHLOE; EPICHLOE FESTUCAE; ESDC GENE; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERENNIAL RYEGRASS; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT GROWTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROA GENE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SORDARIA MACROSPORA; SORDARIALES; STUNTING (PLANT); SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

EPICHLOE FESTUCAE; FUNGI; LOLIUM PERENNE; SORDARIA MACROSPORA;

BINDING SITES; EPICHLOE; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; LOLIUM; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANT LEAVES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84887110943     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12385     Document Type: Article

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