Early events in the Fusarium verticillioides-maize interaction characterized by using a green fluorescent protein-expressing transgenic isolate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1695-1701

  Oren, Liat ^a   Ezrati, Smadar ^a   Cohen, David ^b   Sharon, Amir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Northern R and D ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; DISEASES; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE;

PLANTS GROWTH;

BACTERIA;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

FUNGAL DISEASE; MAIZE; SYMPTOM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; MAIZE; MYCELIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ROOTING; SOIL MICROFLORA;

FUSARIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; SEEDS; TRANSGENES; ZEA MAYS;

BACTERIA; DISEASES; PLANT TISSUES; PLANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; GIBBERELLA MONILIFORMIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037338321     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.3.1695-1701.2003     Document Type: Article

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