Exploitation of sulfonylurea resistance marker and non-homologous end joining mutants for functional analysis in Zymoseptoria tritici

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 79, Issue , 2015, Pages 102-109

  Sidhu, Y S ^a   Cairns, T C ^a   Chaudhari, Y K ^a   Usher, J ^a   Talbot, N J ^a   Studholme, D J ^a   Csukai, M ^b   Haynes, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation; Gene targeting frequency; Homologous recombination; Ku70; Ku80; Non homologous end joining mutants; Sulfonylurea; Yeast recombinational cloning; Zymoseptoria tritici

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC G 418; SULFONYLUREA; GENETIC MARKER; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARTICLE; BAR GENE; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE TARGETING; ILV2 GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; KU70 GENE; KU80 GENE; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE; NONHUMAN; NPTII GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ZYMOSEPTORIA TRITICI; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ASCOMYCETES; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; MAGNAPORTHE ORYZAE;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ASCOMYCOTA; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SULFONYLUREA COMPOUNDS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84937566462     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2015.04.015     Document Type: Article

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