GIP2 — Fusarium graminearum PH-1

Summary

FGRAMPH1_01G05585 (GIP2) on chromosome 1 of Fusarium graminearum PH-1 encodes a DNA-binding transcription factor with RNA polymerase II-specific activity, containing a Zn2Cys6 fungal-type DNA-binding domain and an AflR domain. The gene is associated with pigmentation, regulation of secondary metabolism, aflatoxin anabolism, secondary metabolism, signal transduction, and DNA-dependent transcription, and its product localises to the nucleus. Studies of related genes in other species link the family to unaffected pathogenicity and associations with stem blight in barley and fusarium ear blight in Triticum.