Dominant mutations affecting both sporulation and sterigmatocystin biosynthesis in Aspergillus nidulans

Current Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 218-224

  Wieser, Jenny ^a   Yu, Jae Hyuk ^a   Adams, Thomas H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

G proteins; Microbial development; Mycotoxin; Sporulation; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; STERIGMATOCYSTIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MUTATION; SPORES, FUNGAL; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 0030726102     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050269     Document Type: Article

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