Ustilago maydis, the delightful blight.

Trends in genetics : TIG ·Vol. 8 ·No. 5 ·1992-05-00 ·Pages 174-80

Banuett F

Abstract

Recent studies of the corn smut fungus life cycle and its regulation by two mating type loci and other genes provide a cornucopia of challenges in cell biology, genetics and protein structure. The fungus can exist in two states: nonpathogenic and pathogenic. The change from one state to the other is accompanied by a change in morphology (yeast-like to filamentous) and growth properties (saprophytic to parasitic).

Related Genes

bE bE1 bE2 bW bW1 bW2 bW3 bW4 fuz1 fuz2 rtf1

MeSH Terms

Amino Acid Sequence Fungal Proteins/genetics,physiology Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal Genes, Fungal Genes, Mating Type, Fungal Homeodomain Proteins/genetics,physiology Molecular Sequence Data Plant Tumors/microbiology Reproduction Sequence Alignment Sequence Homology, Amino Acid Spores, Fungal Ustilago/genetics,growth & development,physiology Zea mays/microbiology

Chemicals

BW1 protein, Ustilago maydis Fungal Proteins Homeodomain Proteins

Authors & Affiliations

1 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Banuett F

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0448, USA.

Article Info

Journal

Trends in genetics : TIG

Abbr.

Trends Genet

ISSN

0168-9525

DOI

10.1016/0168-9525(92)90220-x

Published

1992-05-00

Pages

174-80

Language

English

Region

England

NLM ID

8507085

Subset

Corrections

CommentIn

PMID: 1369739

External Links

PubMed source DOI: 10.1016/0168-9525(92)90220-x View journal details

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