SnPKS19 encodes the polyketide synthase for alternariol mycotoxin biosynthesis in the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 5309-5317

  Chooi, Yit Heng ^a,b   Muria Gonzalez, Mariano Jordi ^a   Mead, Oliver L ^a   Solomon, Peter S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION; KETONES;

ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EXPRESSION PROFILE; GENETIC REGULATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES;

GENES;

CORRELATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLITE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENETICS; VIRULENCE; WHEAT;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM AETHIOPICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ALTERNARIOL; FUNGAL DNA; LACTONE; MYCOTOXIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; REVERSE GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WHEAT;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOTOXINS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; REVERSE GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRITICUM;

EID: 84937897400     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00278-15     Document Type: Article

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