Pleiotropic function of the putative zinc-finger protein MoMsn2 in magnaporthe oryzae

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 446-460

  Zhang, Haifeng ^a,b   Zhao, Qian ^a,b   Guo, Xianxian ^a,b   Guo, Min ^a,b,d   Qi, Zhongqiang ^a,b   Tang, Wei ^a,b   Dong, Yanhan ^a,b   Ye, Wenwu ^a,b   Zheng, Xiaobo ^a,b   Wang, Ping ^c   Zhang, Zhengguang ^a,b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAGNAPORTHE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RICE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MAGNAPORTHE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; ORYZA SATIVA; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84898605871     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-13-0271-R     Document Type: Article

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