Overexpression of a Metarhizium robertsii HSP25 gene increases thermotolerance and survival in soil

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 777-783

  Liao, Xinggang ^a   Lu, Hsiao Ling ^a   Fang, Weiguo ^b   St Leger, Raymond J ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Metarhizium robertsii; Rhizospheric insect pathogen; Small heat shock protein (sHSP); Soil survival; Thermotolerance

Indexed keywords

EXTREME TEMPERATURES; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INSECT PATHOGENS; METARHIZIUM ROBERTSII; RHIZOSPHERIC SOILS; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; THERMOTOLERANCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ENCODING; OSMOSIS;

SOILS;

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RESPONSE; MICROCOSM; PATHOGEN; PEST SPECIES; PROTEIN; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; VIRULENCE;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; CLONING; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMINATION; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HYPOCREA VIRENS; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ROBERTSII; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OSMOTIC STRESS; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT ROOT; SOIL MICROFLORA; TRICHODERMA; UPREGULATION;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84893184790     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-5360-5     Document Type: Article

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