Role of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirD2 protein in T-DNA transfer and integration

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 668-683

  Mysore, Kirankumar S ^a,c   Bassuner, Burgund ^a   Deng, Xiao Bing ^a   Darbinian, Nune S ^a   Motchoulski, Andrei ^a   Ream, Walt ^b   Gelvin, Stanton B ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 BROMO 4 CHLORO 3 INDOLYL BETA DEXTRO GLUCURONIC ACID; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DNA TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PLANT GENOME; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTOPLAST;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0032123531     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.7.668     Document Type: Article

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