138th Meeting of the Society for General Microbiology, 2 September 1997: 1997 Fred Griffith Review Lecture. Taking a genetic scalpel to the Streptomyces colony

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1465-1478

  Chater, Keith F ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerial mycelium; Extracellular signalling; Glycogen metabolism; Secondary metabolism; Sporulation

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 0031747318     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-6-1465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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