Phenotypic expression of Pseudomonas syringae avr genes in E. coli is linked to the activities of the hrp-encoded secretion system

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 252-260

  Pirhonen, Minna U ^a,d   Lidell, Michael C ^a   Rowley, Daniel L ^a   Lee, Seon Woo ^b   Jin, Songmu ^a   Liang, Yingqi ^a   Silverstone, Sara ^a,e   Keen, Noel T ^b   Hutcheson, Steven W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCINE MAX; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. GLYCINEA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. SYRINGAE;

PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS; VIRULENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030139303     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-9-0252     Document Type: Article

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