Disturbed correlation between fungal biomass and β-glucuronidase activity in infections of Arabidopsis thaliana with transgenic Alternaria brassicicola

Plant Science

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-36

  Thomma, Bart P H J ^a   Tadesse, Yohannes S H ^b   Jacobs, Michel ^b   Broekaert, Willem F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

glucuronidase activity; Fungal Biomass; Nucleic acid

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; MESSENGER RNA;

AGRICULTURE; ALTERNARIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ALTERNARIA BRASSICICOLA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 0033569691     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(99)00117-X     Document Type: Article

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