Apoplastic and intracellular plant sugars regulate developmental transitions in witches' broom disease of cacao

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1325-1337

  Barau, Joan ^a   Grandis, Adriana ^b   Carvalho, Vinicius Miessler De Andrade ^a   Teixeira, Gleidson Silva ^a   Zaparoli, Gustavo Henrique Alcalá ^a   Do Rio, Maria Carolina Scatolin ^a   Rincones, Johana ^a   Buckeridge, Marcos Silveira ^b   Pereira, Gonçalo Amarante Guimarães ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Hemibiotrophic; Moniliophthora perniciosa; Senescence; Starvation; Theobroma cacao

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; THEOBROMA CACAO;

HEXOSE; PLANT PROTEIN;

AGARICALES; CACAO; CELL ORGANELLE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE;

AGARICALES; CACAO; HEXOSES; ORGANELLES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84924350343     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru485     Document Type: Article

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