Saprotrophic competitiveness and biocontrol fitness of a genetically modified strain of the plant-growth-promoting fungus Trichoderma hamatum GD12

Microbiology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 84-97

  Ryder, Lauren S ^a   Harris, Beverley D ^a   Soanes, Darren M ^a   Kershaw, Michael J ^a   Talbot, Nicholas J ^a   Thornton, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE;

ARTICLE; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HYPHOMYCETES; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI; SAPROTROPH; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA HAMATUM;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ANTIBIOSIS; ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LETTUCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; RHIZOCTONIA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRICHODERMA;

FUNGI; SCLEROTINIA SCLEROTIORUM; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA HAMATUM;

EID: 84855218735     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.051854-0     Document Type: Article

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