Functional genomic analysis of constitutive and inducible defense responses to Fusarium verticillioides infection in maize genotypes with contrasting ear rot resistance

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lanubile, Alessandra ^a   Ferrarini, Alberto ^b   Maschietto, Valentina ^a   Delledonne, Massimo ^b   Marocco, Adriano ^a   Bellin, Diana ^b  

^a Istituto di Agronomia   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Constitutive defense; Fusarium ear rot; RNA Seq analysis; Secondary metabolism; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; FLAVONOID; JASMONIC ACID; LIGNIN; SHIKIMIC ACID; TERPENOID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WRKY TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PLANT RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR ROT; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUSARIUM MONILIFORME; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENOME; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA MONILIFORMIS; ZEA MAYS;

DISEASE RESISTANCE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOTYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84906830230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-710     Document Type: Article

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