Quantitative trait locus mapping of melanization in the plant pathogenic fungus Zymoseptoria tritici

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2519-2533

  Lendenmann, Mark H ^a   Croll, Daniel ^a   Stewart, Ethan L ^a   McDonald, Bruce A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

(radseq); Analysis; Automated; Digital image; Dna; Genetic linkage; Graminicola; Map; Mycosphaerella; QTL; Restriction; Sequencing; Site associated

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MELANIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RESTRICTION SITE; SEGREGATION DISTORTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; ZYMOSEPTORIA TRITICI; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PROTEIN DATABASE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SACCHAROMYCETALES; WHEAT;

FUNGI; GRAMINICOLA; MYCOSPHAERELLA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, PROTEIN; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; MELANINS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRITICUM;

EID: 84964315075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.015289     Document Type: Article

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