The VELVET complex in the gray mold fungus Botrytis cinerea: Impact of BcLAE1 on differentiation, secondary metabolism, and virulence

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 659-674

  Schumacher, Julia ^a   Simon, Adeline ^b   Cohrs, Kim C ^a   Traeger, Stefanie ^a,d   Porquier, Antoine ^b,c   Dalmais, Bérengère ^b   Viaud, Muriel ^b   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BOTRYTIS; DNA MICROARRAY; FRUIT; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; PHASEOLUS; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; SECONDARY METABOLISM; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM; VIRULENCE; VITIS;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BOTRYTIS; FRUIT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; LIGHT; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHASEOLUS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; SECONDARY METABOLISM; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPORES, FUNGAL; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; VIRULENCE; VITIS;

EID: 84933512536     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-12-14-0411-R     Document Type: Article

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