Imaging mycorrhizal fungal transformants that express EGFP during ericoid endosymbiosis

Current Genetics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 65-75

  Martino, Elena ^a   Murat, Claude ^a   Vallino, Marta ^a   Bena, Andrea ^a   Perotto, Silvia ^a   Spanu, Pietro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Ericoid mycorrhiza; Fungi; Oidiodendron maius; Transformation

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYGROMYCIN B; KANAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTOPLAST; RHIZOBIUM;

ASCOMYCOTA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; METALS, HEAVY; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; ZINC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ERICALES; FUNGI; OIDIODENDRON MAIUS;

EID: 34547621808     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-007-0139-9     Document Type: Article

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