Silencing of six hydrophobins in Cladosporium fulvum: Complexities of simultaneously targeting multiple genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 542-546

  Lacroix, Hélène ^a,b   Spanu, Pietro D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADOSPORIUM; EXPRESSION LEVELS; HYDROPHOBINS; INVERTED REPEATS; MULTIGENE FAMILIES; MULTIPLE GENES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GENES;

FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CLADOSPORIUM; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CLADOSPORIUM FULVUM; FUNGI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 58149394272     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01816-08     Document Type: Article

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