The RsmA- mutants of Erwinia carotovora subsp. Carotovora strain Ecc71 overexpress hrpNEcc and elicit a hypersensitive reaction-like response in tobacco leaves

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 565-573

  Cui, Yaya ^a   Madi, Lea ^a,b   Mukherjee, Asita ^a   Dumenyo, C Korsi ^a   Chatterjee, Arun K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Derepressed mutant; Incompatible interactions; Soft rotting bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HARPIN; HRPZ PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RSMA PROTEIN, ERWINIA CAROTOVORA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, TOXIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM SUBSP. CAROTOVORUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. PISI;

EID: 0030458417     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-9-0565     Document Type: Article

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