What makes Pseudomonas bacteria rhizosphere competent?

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-13

  Lugtenberg, Ben J J ^a   Dekkers, Linda C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS;

FORECASTING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FORECASTING; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0033068893     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00005.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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