Cloning and characterisation of glutamine synthetase from Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and demonstration of elevated expression during pathogenesis on Stylosanthes guianensis

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 447-454

  Stephenson, Sally Anne ^a   Green, Jonathan R ^b   Manners, John M ^a   Maclean, Donald J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expression quantification; Glutamine synthetase; Nitrogen metabolism; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA LIBRARY; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGHER PLANT; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GERM-FREE LIFE; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

COLLETOTRICHUM; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; GLOMERELLA CINGULATA; STYLOSANTHES; STYLOSANTHES GUIANENSIS;

EID: 0030916512     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050228     Document Type: Article

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