Targeted mutants of Cochliobolus carbonum lacking the two major extracellular polygalacturonases

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1497-1503

  Scott Craig, John S ^a   Cheng, Yi Qiang ^a   Cervone, Felice ^b   De Lorenzo, Giulia ^b   Pitkin, John W ^a   Walton, Jonathan D ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PECTIN; POLYGALACTURONASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; COCHLIOBOLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS TUBINGENSIS; COCHLIOBOLUS CARBONUM; FUNGI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031977978     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1497-1503.1998     Document Type: Article

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