Opine catabolic loci from Agrobacterium plasmids confer chemotaxis to their cognate substrates

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-143

  Kim, Heenam ^a   Farrand, Stephen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC type transport system; Moc; Noc; Occ

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032005154     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.2.131     Document Type: Article

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