High reliability transformation of the wheat pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana using Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 386-392

  Nizam, Shadab ^a   Verma, Sandhya ^a   Singh, Kunal ^a   Aggarwal, Rashmi ^b   Srivastava, Krishna Dutt ^b   Verma, Praveen K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; ATMT; Bipolaris sorokiniana; DsRed; EGFP; Spot blotch

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC G 418; FUNGAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYGROMYCIN B; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COCHLIOBOLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DRECHSLERA SOROKINIANA; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; FUNGUS TRANSFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RELIABILITY; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WHEAT;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ASCOMYCOTA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PLANT DISEASES; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TRITICUM;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BIPOLARIS; BIPOLARIS SOROKINIANA; FUNGI; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84857238801     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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