The TOR signaling pathway regulates vegetative development and virulence in Fusarium graminearum

New Phytologist

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 219-232

  Yu, Fangwei ^a   Gu, Qin ^a   Yun, Yingzi ^a   Yin, Yanni ^a   Xu, Jin Rong ^b   Shim, Won Bo ^c   Ma, Zhonghua ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusarium graminearum; Fusarium head blight (FHB); Hyphal growth; Secondary metabolism; Sexual and asexual development; Target of rapamycin (TOR) pathway; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN; VIRULENCE;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE;

FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; RAPAMYCIN; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TRICHOTHECENE DERIVATIVE; VOMITOXIN;

ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; VIRULENCE;

DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TACROLIMUS BINDING PROTEIN 1A; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRICHOTHECENES; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84901625114     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12776     Document Type: Article

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