Insertion of the LINE retrotransposon MGL causes a conidiophore pattern mutation in Magnaporthe grisea

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 892-894

  Nishimura, Marie ^a,d   Hayashi, Nagao ^b   Jwa, Nam Soo ^a   Lau, Gee W ^c   Hamer, John E ^c   Hasebe, Akira ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INSERTIONAL MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; RETROPOSON;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; EMBRYOPHYTA; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MEDA;

EID: 0033891430     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.8.892     Document Type: Article

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