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Cloning and characterization of the ribosomal protein L3 (RPL3) gene family from Triticum aestivum.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 May 2007
Lucyshyn Doris, Busch Bernhard L, Abolmaali Shamsozoha, Steiner Barbara, Chandler Elizabeth, Sanjarian Forough, Mousavi Amir, Nicholson Paul, Buerstmayr Hermann, Adam Gerhard
Abstract excerpt
Plant pathogenic fungi of the genus Fusarium can cause severe diseases on small grain cereals and maize. The contamination of harvested grain with Fusarium mycotoxins is a threat to human and animal health. In wheat production of the toxin deoxynivalenol (DON), which inhibits eukaryotic protein biosynthesis, is a virulence factor of Fusarium, and resistance against DON is considered to be part of Fusarium...
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