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A Penicillium expansum glucose oxidase-encoding gene, GOX2, is essential for gluconic acid production and acidification during colonization of deciduous fruit.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jun 2012
Barad Shiri, Horowitz Sigal Brown, Moscovitz Oren, Lichter Amnon, Sherman Amir, Prusky Dov
Abstract excerpt
Penicillium expansum, the causal agent of blue mold rot, causes severe postharvest maceration of fruit through secretion of total, d-gluconic acid (GLA). Two P. expansum glucose oxidase (GOX)-encoding genes, GOX1 and GOX2, were analyzed. GOX activity and GLA accumulation were strongly related to GOX2 expression, which increased with pH to a maximum at pH 7.0, whereas GOX1 was expressed at pH 4.0, where no GOX...
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