Isolation of ant mutants of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain Pf7-14 altered in antibiotic production, cloning of ant+ DNA, and evaluation of the role of antibiotic production in the control of blast and sheath blight of rice

Biological Control

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 185-195

  Chatterjee, A ^a   Valasubramanian, R ^b   Ma, W L ^a   Vachhani, A K ^a   Gnanamanickam, S ^b   Chatterjee, A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

antibiotic genes; biocontrol agent; Pseudomonas; rice blast; rice diseases; sheath blight; transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; GAEUMANNOMYCES; GAEUMANNOMYCES GRAMINIS VAR. TRITICI; HYPHOMYCETES; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PYRICULARIA; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM; RHIZOCTONIA; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS;

EID: 0030273579     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1996.0083     Document Type: Article

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