We have initiated a mutational analysis of pathogenicity in the rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea, in which hygromycin-resistant transformants, most generated by restriction enzyme-mediated integration (REMI), were screened for the ability to infect plants. A rapid primary infection assay facilitated screening of 5,538 transformants. Twenty-seven mutants were obtained that showed a reproduc...

We previously reported Agrobacterium-mediated transformation methods for the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha using the hygromycin phosphotransferase gene as a marker for selection with hygromycin. In this study, we developed three additional markers for M. polymorpha transformation: the gentamicin 3'-acetyltransferase gene for selection with gentamicin; a mutated acetolactate synthase gene for ...

Protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania are the etiologic agents of a spectrum of human diseases referred to as leishmaniasis. Leishmania alternates life stage between an intracellular amastigote form residing within the phagolysosome of vertebrate macrophage and an extracellular promastigote form living in the gut of sand flies. Molecular characterization of the genome of Leishmania has be...

I. Strain construction The strains used in this study are listed in Table S1. The wild type strain background used for this paper was S288C, specifically FY4 (MAT a), FY5 (MAT α), and BY4741 (1). Multiple derivatives of this strain were created by standard transformation protocols. For example, SLYH14 was created by transforming a NotI digest of plasmid SLVD02, a HO-GAL1pr-YFP-hphNT1-HO integra...

Hygromycin A is interesting from the standpoint of the previously undescribed sugar it contains, 5-keto-6-deoxy-n-arabohexose (2,3). The pathway of biosynthesis of this compound is unknown. In this study, Streptomyces hygroscopicus was grown in the presence of specifically labeled glucose, and the distribution of radioactivity in the 5-keto-6-deoxy-n-arabohexose of hygromycin A was determined. ...

Homologous recombination between a pair of directly repeated transgenes was studied in Arabidopsis. The test construct included two different internal, non-overlapping deletion alleles of npt (neomycin phosphotransferase) flanking an active HPT (hygromycin phosphotransferase) gene. This construct was introduced into Arabidopsis by agrobacterium-mediated transformation with selection for resista...