Development of new tools for studying gene function in fungi based on the Gateway system

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1147-1154

  Shafran, Hadas ^a,b   Miyara, Itay ^a,b   Eshed, Ravit ^a   Prusky, Dov ^a   Sherman, Amir ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Colletotrichum gloeosporioides; Filamentous fungi; Functional genomics; Gateway; Gene deletion; PAC1; RNAi

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLETOTRICHUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAC1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLLETOTRICHUM; FUNGI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

FUNGI; GLOMERELLA CINGULATA;

EID: 47249087695     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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