Genome and transcriptome analysis of the fungal pathogen fusarium oxysporum f. Sp. Cubense causing banana vascular wilt disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Guo, Lijia ^a   Han, Lijuan ^c   Yang, Laying ^a   Zeng, Huicai ^b   Fan, Dingding ^c   Zhu, Yabin ^c   Feng, Yue ^c   Wang, Guofen ^a   Peng, Chunfang ^c   Jiang, Xuanting ^c   Zhou, Dajie ^c   Ni, Peixiang ^c   Liang, Changcong ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Mao, Chao ^a   Fang, Xiaodong ^c   Peng, Ming ^b   Huang, Junsheng ^a  

^a AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; TRANSCRIPTOME; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BANANA; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DETOXIFICATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM WILT; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INOCULATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; FUNGAL GENOME; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MUSA; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, FUNGAL; MUSA; PLANT DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84899686407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095543     Document Type: Article

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