Cloning and expression analysis of two opsin-like genes in the phytopathogenic fungus Bipolaris oryzae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 289-294

  Kihara, Junichi ^a   Tanaka, Nozomi ^a   Ueno, Makoto ^a   Arase, Sakae ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipolaris oryzae; Near UV (NUV) radiation; OPS1; OPS2; Opsin like gene

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; OPSIN; OPSIN 1; OPSIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIPOLARIS ORYZAE; BLUE LIGHT; BLUE LIGHT REGULATOR 1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FUNGUS; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOPSINS, MICROBIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BIPOLARIS ORYZAE; FUNGI;

EID: 65649140094     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01609.x     Document Type: Article

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