Production of a fungal furocoumarin by a polyketide synthase gene cluster confers the chemo-resistance of Neurospora crassa to the predation by fungivorous arthropods

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 3920-3929

  Zhao, Yanxia ^a   Ding, Jianing ^a   Yuan, Weihua ^a   Huang, Jinjin ^a   Huang, Wenxiu ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Zheng, Weifa ^a  

^a JIANGSU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROCOUMARIN DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUROCOUMARINS; INSECTICIDES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDES;

EID: 85019697139     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13791     Document Type: Article

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