Genetically engineered Fusarium as a tool to evaluate the effects of environmental factors on initiation of trichothecene biosynthesis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-61

  Ochiai, Noriyuki ^a   Tokai, Takeshi ^a   Takahashi Ando, Naoko ^a   Fujimura, Makoto ^b   Kimura, Makoto ^a  

^a Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agricultural chemicals; Enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP); Fungal disease control; Fusarium head blight (FHB); Stress response; Trichothecene mycotoxin

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FUNGICIDE; GELLAN; OXYGEN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEBUCONAZOLE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TRICHOTHECENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RICE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CEREALS; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRIAZOLES; TRICHOTHECENES;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE;

EID: 34548588394     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00869.x     Document Type: Article

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