Gene-for-gene interactions: Bacterial avirulence proteins specify plant disease resistance

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 94-98

  Bonas, Ulla ^a   Van Den Ackerveken, Guido ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CELL DEATH; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XANTHOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 0033041040     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(99)80016-2     Document Type: Article

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