Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of Botrytis cinerea genes targeting plant cell walls during infections of different hosts

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Blanco Ulate, Barbara ^a   Morales Cruz, Abraham ^a   Amrine, Katherine C H ^a   Labavitch, John M ^a   Powell, Ann L T ^a   Cantu, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Botrytis; CAZymes; Grape; Lettuce; Noble rot; Plant pathogenic fungi; RNAseq; Tomato

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907309730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00435     Document Type: Article

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