Mycotoxigenic Fusarium and deoxynivalenol production repress chitinase gene expression in the biocontrol agent Trichoderma atroviride P1

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3077-3084

  Lutz, Matthias P ^a   Feichtinger, Georg ^a   Défago, Geneviève ^a   Duffy, Brion ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing Viticulture and Horticulture   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; CULTIVATION; FUNGI; GENES;

TOXIGENICITY;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CHITINASE; MYCOTOXIN; VOMITOXIN;

BIOCONTROL AGENT; FUNGAL DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITION; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONTAMINATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE REPRESSION; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REPORTER GENE; TRICHODERMA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037642202     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.6.3077-3084.2003     Document Type: Article

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