Simultaneous silencing of endo-β-1,4 xylanase genes reveals their roles in the virulence of Magnaporthe oryzae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1008-1019

  Nguyen, Quoc Bao ^a,b   Itoh, Kenji ^a   Van Vu, Ba ^a   Tosa, Yukio ^a   Nakayashiki, Hitoshi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nong Lam University Linh Trung Ward   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDO 1,4 BETA XYLANASE; MESSENGER RNA; SYNTHETIC DNA;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL PLANT DISEASE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAGNAPORTHE; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE SILENCING; MAGNAPORTHE; PLANT DISEASES; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

FUNGI; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE;

EID: 80051572802     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07746.x     Document Type: Article

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