In vivo study of Trichoderma-pathogen-plant interactions, using constitutive and inducible green fluorescent protein reporter systems

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3073-3081

  Lu, Zexun ^a   Tombolini, Riccardo ^b   Woo, Sheridan ^c   Zeilinger, Susanne ^d   Lorito, Matteo ^c   Jansson, Janet K ^a,b  

^a SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSIONS; PATHOGENS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

CHITIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; COCULTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CUCUMBER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GERMINATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYPHOMYCETES; NONHUMAN; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM; REPORTER GENE; STEREOMICROSCOPY; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE;

CHITIN; CHITINASE; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PYTHIUM; RHIZOCTONIA; SEEDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRICHODERMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUCUMIS SATIVUS; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM; RHIZOCTONIA; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE;

EID: 2442693211     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.3073-3081.2004     Document Type: Article

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