Cyclopiazonic acid is a pathogenicity factor for aspergillus flavus and a promising target for screening germplasm for ear rot resistance

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 361-373

  Chalivendra, Subbaiah C ^a   De Robertis, Catherine ^a   Chang, Perng Kuang ^b   Damann, Kenneth E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); CYCLOPIAZONIC ACID; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PLANT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKOUT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; INBREEDING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENE; PROMOTER REGION; SOIL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ALLELES; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASES; CELL DEATH; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; INDOLES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SOIL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85020314117     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-02-17-0026-R     Document Type: Article

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