The cAMP-PKA pathway regulates growth, sexual and asexual differentiation, and pathogenesis in fusarium graminearum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 557-566

  Hu, Shuai ^a   Zhou, Xiaoying ^b   Gu, Xiaoying ^a   Cao, Shulin ^a   Wang, Chengfang ^a   Xu, Jin Rong ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FUNGUS SPORE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFLORESCENCE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE; WHEAT;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; INFLORESCENCE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRITICUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84899791277     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-10-13-0306-R     Document Type: Article

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