T-DNA transfer and integration in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus bovinus using hygromycin B as a selectable marker

Current Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 183-188

  Hanif, Mubashir ^a   Pardo, Alejandro Guillermo ^b   Gorfer, Markus ^c   Raudaskoski, Marjatta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

^c Ecowork Laboratories Consulting GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium mediated transformation; Ectomycorrhizal fungus; Hygromycin B resistance

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYGROMYCIN B; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA TRANSFER; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MITOSIS; MUTAGENESIS; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; HYGROMYCIN B; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; FUNGI; SUILLUS; SUILLUS BOVINUS;

EID: 0036947736     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-002-0297-8     Document Type: Article

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