Parameters affecting the efficiency of Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Colletotrichum graminicola

Current Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 380-388

  Flowers, Jennifer L ^a   Vaillancourt, Lisa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary vector; GFP; Glomerella graminicola; Green fluorescent protein

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLETOTRICHUM; COLLETOTRICHUM GRAMINICOLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

COLLETOTRICHUM; FUNGI; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYGROMYCIN B; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANT TUMOR-INDUCING PLASMIDS; PROTOPLASTS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLLETOTRICHUM; FUNGI; GLOMERELLA GRAMINICOLA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 29444445026     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-005-0034-1     Document Type: Article

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