Antisense expression of the calmodulin gene from Colletotrichum trifolii impairs prepenetration development

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 213-219

  Warwar, Vitor ^a   Oved, Shlomo ^b   Dickman, Martin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anthracnose; Fungal development; Fungal signalling

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AGRICULTURE; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; COLLETOTRICHUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALMODULIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLLETOTRICHUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

COLLETOTRICHUM TRIFOLII; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0034668302     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00392-X     Document Type: Article

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