Rapidly Evolving Genes Are Key Players in Host Specialization and Virulence of the Fungal Wheat Pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici (Mycosphaerella graminicola)

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Poppe, Stephan ^a   Dorsheimer, Lena ^a   Happel, Petra ^a   Stukenbrock, Eva Holtgrewe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST RANGE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAPID AMPLIFICATION OF CDNA END POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA TRANSLATION; SECRETION (PROCESS); SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VALIDATION PROCESS; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHEAT; ZYMOSEPTORIA TRITICI; ASCOMYCETES; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

ASCOMYCOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; TRITICUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84938765406     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005055     Document Type: Article

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