Improved biocontrol activity of Trichoderma harzianum by over-expression of the proteinase encoding gene prb1

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 30-37

  Flores, Alberto ^a,b   Chet, Ilan ^a,c   Herrera Estrella, Alfredo ^a  

^a Unidad   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUANAJUATO   (Mexico)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Mycoparasitism; Proteinase; Transformation

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; FUNGUS; GENE CONTROL; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HYPHOMYCETES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL;

ANTIBIOSIS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; PLASMIDS; RHIZOCTONIA; RNA, FUNGAL; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRICHODERMA;

FUNGI; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HYPHOMYCETES; HYPOCREA LIXII; RHIZOCTONIA; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 0031040014     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050173     Document Type: Article

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