Cell wall traits as potential resources to improve resistance of durum wheat against Fusarium graminearum

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lionetti, Vincenzo ^a   Giancaspro, Angelica ^b   Fabri, Eleonora ^a   Giove, Stefania L ^b   Reem, Nathan ^b   Zabotina, Olga A ^b   Blanco, Antonio ^b   Gadaleta, Agata ^b   Bellincampi, Daniela ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell wall; Fusarium graminearum; Fusarium head blight resistance; Pectin methylesterase; Wheat

Indexed keywords

FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; FUSARIUM; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; WHEAT;

CELL WALL; FUSARIUM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; TRITICUM;

EID: 84925718841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-014-0369-1     Document Type: Article

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