Transformation of the ryegrass endophyte Neotyphodium lolii can alter its in planta mycelial morphology

Mycological Research

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 601-611

  Zhang, Ningxin ^a   Scott, Vicki ^a   Al Samarrai, Taha H ^a   Tan, Yong Y ^a   Spiering, Martin J ^a   McMillan, Lisa K ^a   Lane, Geoffrey A ^b   Scott, D Barry ^a   Christensen, Michael J ^b   Schmid, Jan ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Genetic engineering; Hyphal growth; Lolium perenne; Plasmids

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE;

ALKALOID; ENDOSYMBIONT; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRASS; HERBIVORE; MORPHOLOGY; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LOLIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCELIUM; PROMOTER REGION; SYMBIOSIS;

ALKALOIDS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; HYPOCREALES; LOLIUM; MYCELIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SYMBIOSIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; NEOTYPHODIUM LOLII;

EID: 33745965240     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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