The RNAi machinery regulates growth and development in the filamentous fungus Trichoderma atroviride

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-112

  Carreras Villaseñor, Nohemi ^a   Esquivel Naranjo, Edgardo U ^a,b   Villalobos Escobedo, J Manuel ^a   Abreu Goodger, Cei ^a   Herrera Estrella, Alfredo ^a  

^a Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad Cinvestav Irapuato   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DCR1 PROTEIN; DCR2 PROTEIN; DICER; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DCR1 GENE; DCR2 GENE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RDR3 GENE; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE;

FUNGI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRICHODERMA;

FUNGI; TRICHODERMA ATROVIRIDE;

EID: 84879504279     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12261     Document Type: Article

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