Development of a bipartite ecdysone-responsive gene switch for the oomycete Phytophthora infestans and its use to manipulate transcription during axenic culture and plant infection

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 83-91

  Gamboa Meléndez, Heber ^a   Judelson, Howard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotechnology; Functional genomics; Inducible promoter; Late blight; Transformation

Indexed keywords

CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

ECDYSONE; HYDRAZINE DERIVATIVE; JUVENILE HORMONE; METHOXYFENOZIDE;

AXENIC CULTURE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLASMID; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; TOMATO; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

AXENIC CULTURE; ECDYSONE; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, SWITCH; HYDRAZINES; JUVENILE HORMONES; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84919860855     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: 13643703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mpp.12161     Document Type: Article

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