Functional analyses of individual mating-type transcripts at MAT loci in Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium asiaticum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-96

  Kim, Hee Kyoung ^a   Cho, Eun Ji ^a   Lee, Seunghoon ^a   Lee, Young Sang ^a   Yun, Sung Hwan ^a  

^a Soonchunhyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fusarium graminearum; Mating type genes; Self fertility; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM ASIATICUM; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; MAT 1 1 1 GENE; MAT 1 1 2 GENE; MAT 1 1 3 GENE; MAT 1 2 1 GENE; MAT 1 2 3 GENE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; OUTCROSSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON;

FUSARIUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

FUSARIUM ASIATICUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE;

EID: 84870352529     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12012     Document Type: Article

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