Gene clusters for insecticidal loline alkaloids in the grass-endophytic fungus Neotyphodium uncinatum

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1403-1414

  Spiering, Martin J ^a   Moon, Christina D ^a,c   Wilkinson, Heather H ^b   Schardl, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; INSECTICIDE; LOLINE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GRASS; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALKALOIDS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYMES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; INSECTICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, FUNGAL;

EID: 17444394406     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.035972     Document Type: Article

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