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Gibberella zeae Ascospore Production and Collection for Microarray Experiments.
Published on: November 30, 2006
Respiration and gene expression in germinating ascospores of Neurospora tetrasperma
E P Hill1, N Plesofsky-Vig, A Paulson
1Department of Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul 55108.
FEMS Microbiology Letters
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Cellular proteins were not synthesized by germinating ascospores of Neurospora tetrasperma until 90 min after spore activation. Nevertheless, immediately after activation these ascospores developed a cyanide-sensitive respiration which increased throughout this 90-min period. At 90 min the respiratory rates accelerated rapidly, protein synthesis was initiated, and transcripts for a subunit of the mitochondrial ATPase, employed here as a representative mRNA, began to accumulate.

