Structure and function of a conserved DNA region coding for tartrate utilization in Agrobacterium vitis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 333-337

  Salomone, J Y ^a   Otten, L ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium vitis; Bacterial evolution; Tartrate utilization

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; TARTARIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TARTRATES;

AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VITIS;

EID: 0032962329     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00162-7     Document Type: Article

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