Molecular Methods for Studying the Cryphonectria parasitica – Hypovirus Experimental System

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 722, Issue , 2011, Pages 225-236

  Dawe, Angus L ^a   Mu, Rong ^b   Rivera, Gloricelys ^b   Salamon, Joanna A ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hypovirulence; Phosphatase; Protein phosphorylation; RNA secondary structure; RNase digestion

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHEMISTRY; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NUT; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; RNA VIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE; VIRUS GENOME;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; NUTS; PLANT DISEASES; RNA VIRUSES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 80053093108     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-040-9_17     Document Type: Chapter

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