Role of the O-antigen of lipopolysaccharide, and possible roles of growth rate and of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (nuo) in competitive tomato root-tip colonization by Pseudomonas fluorescens WCS365

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 763-771

  Dekkers, Linda C ^a   Van Der Bij, Arjan J ^a   Mulders, Ine H M ^a   Phoelich, Claartje C ^a   Wentwoord, Rino A R ^a   Glandorf, Deborah C M ^b   Wijffelman, Carel A ^a   Lugtenberg, Ben J J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BIOSYNTHESIS; GROWTH RATE; HOMOLOGY; IDENTIFICATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NADH UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE; PLANT ROOT; TOMATO; TRANSPOSON;

PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0032146667     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.8.763     Document Type: Article

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