Cloning of a pectate lyase gene from Xanthomonas campestris pv. malvacearum and comparison of its sequence relationship with pel genes of soft-rot Erwinia and Pseudomonas

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-21

  Liao, Ching Hsing ^a   Gaffney, Thomas D ^b   Bradley, Sean P ^c   Wong, Lee Jun C ^c,d  

^a EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Ciba Geigy Corporation   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PECTATE LYASE; POLYSACCHARIDE LYASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VEGETABLE; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VEGETABLES; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 0030019268     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-9-0014     Document Type: Article

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