Enhanced gene replacement frequency in KU70 disruption strain of Stagonospora nodorum

Microbiological Research

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 173-178

  Feng, Jie ^a   Li, Weijiao ^b   Hwang, Sheau Fang ^a   Gossen, Bruce D ^c   Strelkov, Stephen E ^d  

^a ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS   (China)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

DSB; Fungal transformation; Gene disruption; Homologous recombination; NHEJ; SNB

Indexed keywords

DSB; FUNGAL TRANSFORMATION; GENE DISRUPTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NHEJ; SNB;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENE ENCODING;

FUNGAL DNA; MYCOTOXIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; RECOMBINATION; SPORE; VEGETABLE; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORDEUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMID; WHEAT;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORDEUM; LIPASE; MYCOTOXINS; PLANT DISEASES; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRITICUM;

HORDEUM; PHAEOSPHAERIA NODORUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84856606900     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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