The cryptic plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens cointegrates with the Ti plasmid and cooperates for opine degradation

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 583-591

  Vaudequin Dransart, Valérie ^a   Petit, Annik ^a   Chilton, W Scott ^b   Dessaux, Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. rhizogenes; Conjugation; Ri plasmids

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DEOXYFRUCTOSYL GLUTAMINE; DEOXYFRUCTOSYL OXOPROLINE; NITROGEN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 0031720460     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.7.583     Document Type: Article

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