A chemical ecogenomics approach to understand the roles of secondary metabolites in fungal cereal pathogens

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Chooi, Yit Heng ^a   Solomon, Peter S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Ecological genomics; Fungal secondary metabolites; Genome mining; Plant pathogen

Indexed keywords

POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIPOLARIS SOROKINIANA; CEREAL; COCHLIOBOLUS HETEROSTROPHUS; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLITE; METAGENOMICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PARASTAGONOSPORA NODORUM; PLANT DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECONDARY METABOLITE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

FUNGI;

EID: 84920566739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00640     Document Type: Article

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