Cloning, disruption, and expression of two endo-β1,4-xylanase genes, XYL2 and XYL3, from Cochliobolus carbonum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4129-4135

  Apel Birkhold, Patricia C ^a   Walton, Jonathan D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAIZE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY;

COCHLIOBOLUS CARBONUM; FUNGI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0029827597     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.11.4129-4135.1996     Document Type: Article

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