Fusarium verticillioides SGE1 is required for full virulence and regulates expression of protein effector and secondary metabolite biosynthetic genes

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 809-823

  Brown, Daren W ^a   Busman, Mark ^a   Proctor, Robert H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL UTILIZATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUMONISIN; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOPHYTE; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SEEDLING; VIRULENCE;

DNA, FUNGAL; ENDOPHYTES; FUMONISINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SEEDLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRULENCE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84904208097     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-13-0281-R     Document Type: Article

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