The Gibberella fujikuroi niaD gene encoding nitrate reductase: Isolation, sequence, homologous transformation and electrophoretic karyotype location

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 533-539

  Tudzynski, Bettina ^a   Mende, Katrin ^a   Weltring, Klaus Michael ^a   Kinghorn, James R ^b   Unkles, Shiela E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrophoretic karyotype; Gene structure; Gibberella fujikuroi; Homologous transformation; niaD

Indexed keywords

NITRATE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; DNA INTEGRATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; INTRON; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GIBBERELLA; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI;

EID: 0029862652     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-3-533     Document Type: Article

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