Use of a non-homologous end-joining-deficient strain (delta-ku70) of the biocontrol fungus Trichoderma virens to investigate the function of the laccase gene lcc1 in sclerotia degradation

Current Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-23

  Catalano, Valentina ^a,b   Vergara, Mariarosaria ^c   Hauzenberger, Jasmin R ^b   Seiboth, Bernhard ^b   Sarrocco, Sabrina ^a   Vannacci, Giovanni ^a   Kubicek, Christian P ^b   Seidl Seiboth, Verena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene targeting; ku70; Laccase; Mycoparasitism; Sclerotia; Trichoderma virens

Indexed keywords

DELTA KU70 PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; KU ANTIGEN; LACCASE; LACCASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL SCLEROTIUM; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HYPOCREA VIRENS; LCC1 GENE; MYCOPARASITISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; LACCASE; TRICHODERMA;

BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI; HYPOCREA VIRENS; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM;

EID: 78951485004     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-010-0322-2     Document Type: Article

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