Publications

disruption of botrytis cinerea pectin methylesterase gene bcpme1 reduces virulence on several host plants.	the pectinolytic enzyme pectin methylesterase (pme) hydrolyses pectin in methanol and polygalacturonic acid. in the expressed sequence tag library of botrytis cinerea t4, we identified a 1,041 bp bcpme1 cdna potentially encoding a 346-amino acid protein of 37 kda showing 46.8% identity with aspergillus sp. pmes. bcpme1 is a single copy gene and is similarly expressed in glucose and pectin containing media. to evaluate the role of bcpme1 in botrytis cinerea virulence, a mutant in bcpme1 was gener ...	2003	12744465
scatter: a novel family of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements in the fungus botrytis cinerea.	miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (mites) are short non-autonomous dna transposons that play an important role in genome structure and function. here, we described a novel family of mites, named scatter, identified from the genomes of three strains of the fungus botrytis cinerea (t4, b05.10, and tbc-a). intact scatter elements are typically an average of 247 bp, and contain 41 bp terminal inverted repeats (tirs) and 2-bp "ta" target site duplications (tsds). based a search against ...	2013	23775675