Co-transformation of the sclerotial mycoparasite Coniothyrium minitans with hygromycin B resistance and β-glucuronidase markers

Mycological Research

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 929-937

  Jones, Eirian ^a,c   Carpenter, Margaret ^a   Fong, Dahna ^b   Goldstein, Alan ^a,d   Thrush, Anthony ^b   Crowhurst, Ross ^b   Stewart, Alison ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE; HYGROMYCIN RESISTANCE GENE; MYCOPARASITE; PLASMID DNA; PROMOTER REGION; SCLEROTIUM; SURVIVAL; WILD RELATIVE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONIOTHYRIUM MINITANS; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 0033505093     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756298008168     Document Type: Article

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