Phytochrome controls conidiation in response to red/far-red light and daylight length and regulates multistress tolerance in Beauveria bassiana

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2316-2328

  Qiu, Lei ^a   Wang, Juan Juan ^a   Chu, Zhen Jian ^a   Ying, Sheng Hua ^a   Feng, Ming Guang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN-HISTIDINE KINASE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; VIRULENCE;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BEAUVERIA; CATALASE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LIGHT; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYTOCHROME; PROTEIN KINASES; SPORES, FUNGAL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84903715062     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12486     Document Type: Article

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