Production of acyl-homoserine lactone quorum-sensing signals by gram-negative plant-associated bacteria

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1119-1129

  Cha, Chung ^a   Gao, Ping ^a   Chen, Yu Ching ^a   Shaw, Paul D ^a   Farrand, Stephen K ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; 3 OXOACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; ALKANOYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; ERWINIA; MICROBIAL FUNCTION; N (3 OXOHEXANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; N (3 OXOOCTANOYL)HOMOSERINE LACTONE; PANTOEA; POPULATION DENSITY; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; QUORUM SENSING; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; RHIZOBIUM; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; XANTHOMONAS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; ERWINIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PANTOEA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; RHIZOBIUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO FISCHERI; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 0032211618     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.11.1119     Document Type: Article

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