RNA-mediated gene silencing in the cereal fungal pathogen Cochliobolus sativus

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 289-298

  Leng, Yueqiang ^a   Wu, Chengxiang ^b   Liu, Zhaohui ^a   Friesen, Timothy L ^c   Rasmussen, Jack B ^a   Zhong, Shaobin ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MYCOTOXIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOASSAY; CEREAL; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ASCOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CEREALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MYCOTOXINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BIPOLARIS SOROKINIANA; COCHLIOBOLUS; COCHLIOBOLUS SATIVUS; FUNGI; HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79952057638     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1364-3703.2010.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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