Transcriptional activity of antifungal metabolite-encoding genes phlD and hcnBC in Pseudomonas spp. using qRT-PCR

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 212-222

  Paulin, Mélanie M ^a   Novinscak, Amy ^a   St Arnaud, Marc ^b   Goyer, Claudia ^c   Decoste, Nadine J ^a   Privé, Jean Pierre ^c   Owen, Josée ^c   Filion, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

2,4 diacetylphloroglucinol (DAPG); Hydrogen cyanide (HCN); Pseudomonas; QRT PCR; Transcriptional activity

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; 2,4 DIACETYLPHLOROGLUCINOL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTAGONISM; BACTERIUM; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLITE; PATHOGEN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL AGENT; RHIZOSPHERE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HCNBC GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHLD GENE; PHYTOPTHORA CACTORUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOSPHERE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRAWBERRY; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE;

ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHLOROGLUCINOL; PHYTOPHTHORA; PSEUDOMONAS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERTICILLIUM;

PHYTOPHTHORA CACTORUM; PSEUDOMONAS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE;

EID: 64149114103     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00669.x     Document Type: Article

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