Endochitinase CHI2 of the biocontrol fungus Metarhizium anisopliae affects its virulence toward the cotton stainer bug Dysdercus peruvianus

Current Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 551-560

  Boldo, Juliano Tomazzoni ^a   Junges, Angela ^a   do Amaral, Karina Bohrer ^a   Staats, Charley Christian ^a   Vainstein, Marilene Henning ^a   Schrank, Augusto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agrotransformation; Chitinase; Dysdercus peruvianus; Gene knock out; Metarhizium anisopliae; Overexpression

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CHITINASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSDERCUS PERUVIANUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; KNOCKOUT GENE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITINASE; DNA PRIMERS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INSECTS; METARHIZIUM; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; VIRULENCE;

DYSDERCUS PERUVIANUS; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; SUBGROUP B; WUPATKIUS SEMO;

EID: 70349979004     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-009-0267-5     Document Type: Review

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