Cloning, sequencing and functional analysis of Magnaporthe grisea MVP1 gene, a hex-1 homolog encoding a putative 'woronin body' protein

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-90

  Asiegbu, Frederick O ^a,b,c   Choi, Woobong ^a,b   Jeong, Jun Seop ^a,b   Dean, Ralph A ^a,b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Appressorium; cDNA; Gene disruption; Northern blotting; Rice blast fungus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EVALUATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE GRISEA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 0345861993     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00858-9     Document Type: Article

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