Improved cultivation systems for isolation of the Colorado potato beetle spiroplasma

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3453-3458

  Konai, Meghnad ^a   Hackett, K J ^a,f   Williamson, D L ^b   Lipa, J J ^c   Pollack, J D ^d   Gasparich, G E ^a   Clark, E A ^a   Vacek, D C ^e   Whitcomb, R F ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; POTATO; SPIROPLASMA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SPIROPLASMA; SPIROPLASMA PHAGE 4;

EID: 0029786918     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.9.3453-3458.1996     Document Type: Article

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