Effector discovery in the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 931-945

  Mirzadi Gohari, Amir ^a,b   Ware, Sarah B ^a   Wittenberg, Alexander H J ^a   Mehrabi, Rahim ^c   Ben M'Barek, Sarrah ^a,d   Verstappen, Els C P ^a   van der Lee, Theo A J ^a   Robert, Olivier ^e   Schouten, Henk J ^a   de Wit, Pierre P J G M ^a   Kema, Gert H J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c SEED AND PLANT IMPROVEMENT INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^d CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE BORJ CÉDRIA   (Tunisia)

^e Florimond Desprez   (France)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Effectors; Knock out; QTL mapping; Septoria tritici blotch; Wheat; Zymoseptoria tritici

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ASCOMYCETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; WHEAT;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, FUNGAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRITICUM; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84945449919     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12251     Document Type: Article

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