Identification of Agrobacterium tumefaciens genes that direct the complete catabolism of octopine

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1872-1880

  Cho, Kyungyun ^a   Fuqua, Clay ^a,b   Martin, Bryan S ^a,c   Winans, Stephen C ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; OCTOPINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0029880576     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.7.1872-1880.1996     Document Type: Article

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