A comparison of the nucleotide sequence of the cerato-ulmin gene and the rDNA ITS between aggressive and non-aggressive isolates of Ophiostoma ulmi sensu lato, the causal agent of Dutch elm disease

Current Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 168-173

  Jeng, Robert ^a   Hintz, William E ^b   Bowden, Christine G ^a   Borgen, Paul A ^a   Hubbes, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerato ulmin; Gene structure; Ophiostoma ulmi; rDNA ITS

Indexed keywords

OPHIOSTOMA ULMI; ULMUS;

GENE PRODUCT; RIBOSOME DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CODING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPHIOSTOMALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SYMPTOM; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TREE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOTOXINS; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030021144     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02221581     Document Type: Article

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