Cloning of the mating type locus from Ascochyta lentis (teleomorph: Didymella lentis) and development of a multiplex PCR mating assay for Ascochyta species

Current Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-215

  Chérif, Mohamed ^a   Chilvers, Martin I ^b   Akamatsu, Hajime ^b   Peever, Tobin L ^b   Kaiser, Walter J ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascochyta lentis; Highmobility group; HMG box; Inverse PCR; Multiplex PCR; Thermal asymmetric interlaced (TAIL) PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOCHYTA FABAE; ASCOCHYTA LENTIS; ASCOCHYTA PISI; ASCOCHYTA RABIEI; ASCOCHYTA VICIAE VILLOSAE; ASCOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FLANKING REGION; FUNGUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; LENTIL; MATING TYPE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SIZE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THERMAL ASYMMETRIC INTERLACED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HMGB PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ASCOCHYTA; ASCOCHYTA FABAE; ASCOCHYTA LENTIS; ASCOCHYTA PISI; DIDYMELLA LENTIS; FUNGI; LENS CULINARIS; MYCOSPHAERELLA RABIEI;

EID: 33747202726     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-006-0085-y     Document Type: Article

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