Analyses of expressed sequence tags from the maize foliar pathogen Cercospora zeae-maydis identify novel genes expressed during vegetative, infectious, and reproductive growth

Table 5 Sequences from EST libraries of Cercospora zeae-maydis implicated in fungal development

Cluster #	GenBank gi #¹	BLAST value	Putative function (fungal homolog)²	No. of ESTs in libraries
				Sporulation	Vegetative
545	67525274	5e-36	Conidiophore development protein (hymA)	0	4
1155	402369	1e-63	Regulator of conidiation (flbA)	0	4
1164	46125378	2e-55	Regulator of fruiting body formation (nosA)	0	4
1146	115387582	3e-109	Regulator of conidiation (nrc-2)	0	2
1217	154287709	1e-62	Regulator of development in response to nutrient availability (rcd1)	0	6
40	32995311	5e-85	Pleiotropic developmental regulator (fst12)	2	4

¹ gi = GenBank gene index number of most homologous sequence obtained by tBLASTx.
² Projected function based on comparative analysis of similar sequences obtained by tBLASTx with a threshold of 1e-5.

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