Molecular cloning of an aepA gene that activates production of extracellular pectolytic, cellulolytic, and proteolytic enzymes in Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 239-246

  Murata, H ^a   McEvoy, J L ^a   Chatterjee, A ^a   Collmer, A ^b   Chatterjee, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIUM GRAVEOLENS VAR. DULCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM SUBSP. CAROTOVORUM;

EID: 0000833224     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-4-239     Document Type: Article

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