Isolation and characterization of MAT genes in the symbiotic ascomycete Tuber melanosporum

New Phytologist

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 710-722

  Rubini, Andrea ^a   Belfiori, Beatrice ^a   Riccioni, Claudia ^a   Tisserant, Emilie ^b   Arcioni, Sergio ^a   Martin, Francis ^b   Paolocci, Francesco ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Ascomycetes; Ectomycorrhizal fungi; Heterothallism; Mating type; Reproductive system; Tuber melanosporum

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MOBILITY; PLANTATION; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPORE; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; GLEBA; TUBER (TRUFFLE); TUBER MELANOSPORUM;

EID: 78651337617     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03492.x     Document Type: Article

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