Molecular cloning, characterization, and mutagenesis of a pel gene from Pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans encoding a member of the Erwinia chrysanthemi PelADE family of pectate lyases

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 369-379

  Bauer, David W ^a   Collmer, Alan ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

54 dependent promoters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031127163     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.3.369     Document Type: Article

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