Use of REMI and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation to identify pathogenicity mutants of the biocontrol fungus, Coniothyrium minitans

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-214

  Rogers, Christopher W ^a   Challen, Michael P ^a   Green, Jonathan R ^b   Whipps, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation; Coniothyrium minitans; Mycoparasitism; Pathogenicity; REMI

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYGROMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CONIOTHYRIUM MINITANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOPLAST; RHIZOBIUM;

ASCOMYCOTA; MUTATION; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; CONIOTHYRIUM; CONIOTHYRIUM MINITANS; FUNGI; SCLEROTINIA; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 10444238024     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.10.022     Document Type: Article

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