Neurospora crassa
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Author(s): M. Piepenbring
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Neurospora crassa Shear & B.O. Dodge 1927
This ascomycete fungus is mainly a saprophyte with little significance in the field of plant pathology. However, it has been extensively studied genetically as a model fungus and was the first fungus for which the complete genome was sequenced.
Publications covering Neurospora crassa
Archives of Microbiology (2017) 199, 531-542
Vijya Laxmi and Ranjan Tamuli (2017)
The calmodulin gene in Neurospora crassa is required for normal vegetative growth, ultraviolet survival, and sexual development
Phytoparasitica (2005) 33, p. 282 (Yarden et al.)
O. Yarden, A. Harel and Carmit Ziv (2005)
Genomic sequencing of fungi: On the path to understanding the biology of phytopathogens
Abstracts of presentations at the 26th Congress of the Israeli Phytopathological Society (February 14-15, 2005, Bet Dagan, Israel), lecture
Applied and Environmental Microbiology (1999) 65, 5451-5458
Karin Thevissen, Franky R.G. Terras and Willem F. Broekaert (1999)
Permeabilization of fungal membranes by plant defensins inhibits fungal growth
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