Analysis of the Mycotoxin Levels and Expression Pattern of SWN Genes at Different Time Points in the Fungus .

The fungal plant pathogen produces two mycotoxins that affect animals: slaframine, which causes slobbers, and swainsonine, which causes locoism. contains the swainsonine-associated orthologous gene clusters, "SWN", which include a multifunctional gene (NRPS-PKS hybrid), and (nonheme iron dioxygenase genes), and (reductase genes), and swnT (transmembrane transporter). In addition to these genes, two paralogs of , (paralog1) and (paralog2), are found in .

RNAi-mediated down-regulation of a melanin polyketide synthase (pks1) gene in the fungus Slafractonia leguminicola.

The fungus Slafractonia leguminicola, the causal agent of blackpatch disease of legumes produces two mycotoxins slaframine and swainsonine, causing slobbers' symptoms and locoism of grazing animals, respectively. The genetics of this important fungus is poorly understood. This work aimed to develop a genetic transformation system and evaluate the efficacy of RNA interference (RNAi) in S.

Repercussion of mesophyll-specific overexpression of a soybean cytosolic glutamine synthetase gene in alfalfa ( L.) and tobacco ( L.).

Glutamine synthetase (GS) plays a central role in plant nitrogen metabolism. Plant GS occurs as a number of isoenzymes present in either the cytosol (GS) or chloroplast/plastid (GS). There are several reports of improved performance in transgenic plants overexpressing GS transgenes driven by the constitutive CaMV35S promoter.