Melanin is not required for turgor generation but enhances cell-wall rigidity in appressoria of the corn pathogen colletotrichum graminicola

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 315-327

  Ludwig, Nancy ^a   Löhrer, Marco ^b   Hempel, Marcus ^a   Mathea, Sebastian ^c   Schliebner, Ivo ^b   Menzel, Matthias ^d   Kiesow, Andreas ^d   Schaffrath, Ulrich ^b   Deising, Holger B ^a   Horbach, Ralf ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK RESEARCH UNIT FOR ENZYMOLOGY OF PROTEIN FOLDING   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MELANIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL WALL; COLLETOTRICHUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE;

CELL WALL; COLLETOTRICHUM; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84896786152     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-13-0267-R     Document Type: Article

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