Transformation of the bioherbicide Colletotrichum gloeosporioides f. sp. aeschynomene by electroporation of germinated conidia

Current Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 98-104

  Robinson, Micah ^a   Sharon, Amir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Fungal transformation; GFP; Mycoherbicides

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HERBICIDE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COLLETOTRICHUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENE;

CALIBRATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SIZE; COLLETOTRICHUM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPORATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HERBICIDES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032865012     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050478     Document Type: Article

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