Efficient gene identification and targeted gene disruption in the wheat blotch fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola using TAGKO

Current Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 123-127

  Adachi, Kiichi ^a   Nelson, Grant H ^a   Peoples, Keith A ^a   Frank, Sheryl A ^a   Montenegro Chamorro, Maria V ^a   DeZwaan, Todd M ^a   Ramamurthy, Lakshman ^a   Shuster, Jeffrey R ^a   Hamer, Lisbeth ^a   Tanzer, Matthew M ^a  

^a Clinical Data Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroporation; Gene disruption; Mycosphaerella graminicola; Septoria wheat blotch; TAGKO

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; DNA TRANSPOSITION; ELECTROPORATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TARGETING; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; WHEAT; WILD TYPE;

ASCOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPORATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRITICUM;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; GRAMINICOLA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MYCOSPHAERELLA; MYCOSPHAERELLA GRAMINICOLA; MYXOGASTRIA; SEPTORIA; TRANSPOSONS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0036873338     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-002-0339-2     Document Type: Article

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