Characterization of type IV pilus genes in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1048-1056

  Roine, Elina ^a   Raineri, Deanna M ^b   Romantschuk, Martin ^a   Wilson, Mark ^c   Nunn, David N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTANT; CLONED GENE; COSMID; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; PILUS; PREPILIN PEPTIDASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PILA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. TOMATO;

EID: 0032213608     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.11.1048     Document Type: Article

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