Isolation and characterisation of five different hydrophobin-encoding cDNAs from the fungal tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 261, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 644-652

  Segers, G C ^a   Hamada, W ^b   Oliver, R P ^a   Spanu, P D ^b  

^a CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cladosporium fulvum; Cosuppression; Cross cosuppression; Expression; Starvation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYDROPHOBIN; NITROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLADOSPORIUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; TOMATO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLADOSPORIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPORES, FUNGAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033060642     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050007     Document Type: Article

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