The role of an extracellular chitinase from Trichoderma virens Gv29-8 in the biocontrol of Rhizoctonia solani

Current Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-50

  Baek, Jong Min ^a   Howell, Charles R ^b   Kenerley, Charles M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Chitinase; Mycoparasitism; Transformation

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG MANUFACTURE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GROWTH RATE; HYPHOMYCETES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; TRICHODERMA;

CELL DIVISION; CHITINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, FUNGAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; RHIZOCTONIA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 0033057503     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050431     Document Type: Article

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