The LmSNF1 gene is required for pathogenicity in the canola blackleg pathogen leptosphaeria maculans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Feng, Jie ^a   Zhang, Hui ^b   Strelkov, Stephen E ^c   Hwang, Sheau Fang ^a  

^a ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL WALL DEGRADING ENZYME; MEMBRANE ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTYLEDON; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; LEPTOSPHAERIA MACULANS; LMSNF1 GENE; LOPB GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; RAPESEED; SPOROGENESIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; BRASSICA NAPUS; CELL WALL; COTYLEDON; DOWN-REGULATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84898606193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092503     Document Type: Article

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