A two-component system plays an important role in the root-colonizing ability of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain WCS365

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-56

  Dekkers, Linda C ^a   Bloemendaal, Cees Jan P ^a   De Weger, Letty A ^a   Wijffelman, Carel A ^a   Spaink, Herman P ^a   Lugtenberg, Ben J J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE SEQUENCING; OPERON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031894034     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.1.45     Document Type: Article

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