Iron-dependent transcription of the regulatory gene ros of Agrobacterium radiobacter

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1087-1093

  Hussain, H ^a   Johnston, A W B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoregulation

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; RADIOBACTER;

EID: 0031541030     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.9.1087     Document Type: Article

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