Functional analysis of a multicopy host-selective ACT-toxin biosynthesis gene in the tangerine pathotype of Alternaria alternata using RNA silencing

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1591-1599

  Miyamoto, Y ^a   Masunaka, A ^a,e   Tsuge, T ^b   Yamamoto, M ^c   Ohtani, K ^a   Fukumoto, T ^a   Gomi, K ^a   Peever, T L ^d   Akimitsu, Kazuya ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HOKKAIDO REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN;

ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CITRUS FRUIT; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SILENCING; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALTERNARIA; CITRUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MYCOTOXINS; PLASMIDS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, FUNGAL; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; CITRUS RETICULATA; FUNGI; PUNCTUM BLANDIANUM;

EID: 57149113344     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-21-12-1591     Document Type: Article

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