Trehalose induces antagonism towards Pythium debaryanum in Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 17400

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4340-4345

  Gaballa, A ^a,b   Abeysinghe, P D ^a   Urich, G ^a   Matthijs, S ^a,b   De Greve, H ^a   Cornelis, P ^b   Koedam, N ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TREHALOSE;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; FUNGUS GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REPORTER GENE; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0030666609     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.11.4340-4345.1997     Document Type: Article

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