A global regulatory gene controls secondary metabolites, motility, and pathogenicity factors in erwinia amylovora

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 237-247

  Mukherjee, A ^a   Cui, Y ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Korsi Dumenyo, C ^a   Chatterjee, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM;

EID: 0000742471     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.1996.411.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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