Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of the endophytic fungus Acremonium implicatum associated with Brachiaria grasses

Mycological Research

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 407-413

  Abello, Javier ^a   Kelemu, Segenet ^a   García, Celsa ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Endophytes; Gene delivery; Green fluorescent protein (GFP); Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; DNA; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GRASS; HOST PLANT; PROTEIN; SYMBIOSIS;

ACREMONIUM; ARTICLE; BRACHIARIA; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCELIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SYMBIOSIS;

ACREMONIUM; BRACHIARIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MYCELIUM; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ACREMONIUM (ASCOMYCOTA); ACREMONIUM IMPLICATUM; AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BRACHIARIA; FUNGI; POACEAE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 40649105786     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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