Isolation and characterization of the gibberellin biosynthetic gene cluster in Sphaceloma manihoticola

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 5325-5339

  Bömke, Christiane ^a   Rojas, Maria Cecilia ^b   Gong, Fan ^c   Hedden, Peter ^c   Tudzynski, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; METABOLITES; PATHOGENS;

BIOSYNTHETIC GENES; FUSARIUM; SYNTHASE;

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

CYTOCHROME P450; FARNESYL TRANS TRANSFERASE; GIBBERELLIN; KAURENE DERIVATIVE; UNSPECIFIC MONOOXYGENASE;

CASSAVA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; HORMONE; RELATEDNESS; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPHACELOMA MANIHOTICOLA;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DNA, FUNGAL; FARNESYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; FUSARIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GIBBERELLINS; MANIHOT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT DISEASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; MANIHOT ESCULENTA; SPHACELOMA MANIHOTICOLA;

EID: 50949094203     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00694-08     Document Type: Article

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