Ti plasmids from Agrobacterium characterize rootstock clones that initiated a spread of crown gall disease in mediterranean countries

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4197-4206

  Pionnat, Sandrine ^a   Keller, Harald ^a   Héricher, Delphine ^a   Bettachini, Andrée ^a   Dessaux, Yves ^b   Nesme, Xavier ^c   Poncet, Christine ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; HIGHER PLANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHIZOBIUM; SOIL MICROFLORA;

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032851746     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.4197-4206.1999     Document Type: Article

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