Functional analysis of the Pseudomonas syringae rulAB determinant in tolerance to ultraviolet B (290-320 nm) radiation and distribution of rulAB among P. syringae pathovars

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 75-87

  Sundin, George W ^a   Murillo, Jesús ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. SYRINGAE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

GENES, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANTS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0033068984     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.1999.00008.x     Document Type: Article

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