A pathogenicity gene isolated from the pPATH plasmid of Erwinia herbicola pv. gypsophilae Determines host specificity

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 753-762

  Valinsky, Lea ^a,b   Manulis, Shulamit ^a   Nizan, Roni ^b   Ezra, David ^a,b   Barash, Isaac ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Type III secretion system

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GENE ISOLATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ERWINIA HERBICOLA;

EID: 0032146131     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.8.753     Document Type: Article

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