Designing a biological control of fire blight: Expression of a new peptide antibiotic gene in erw1nia amylovora and of the harpin gene in erwinia herbicola

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 489, Issue , 1999, Pages 669-670

  Vanneste, J L ^a   Yu, J ^a   Cornish, D A ^a   Voyle, M D ^a   Melbourne, M ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0006548381     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1999.489.119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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