Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer and enhanced green fluorescent protein visualization in the mycorrhizal ascomycete Tuber borchii: A first step towards truffle genetics

Current Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-74

  Grimaldi, Benedetto ^a   de Raaf, Michiel A ^a,b   Filetici, Patrizia ^a   Ottonello, Simone ^c   Ballario, Paola ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b AVANS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; EGFP; Genetic transformation; Mycorrhizal fungi; Truffles; Tuber borchii

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYGROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA TRANSFER; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FRUIT; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MYCELIUM; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TREE; TUBER (GENUS); TUBER BORCHII;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; CINNAMATES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYGROMYCIN B; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; TUBER (TRUFFLE); TUBER BORCHII;

EID: 23144451689     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-005-0579-z     Document Type: Article

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