Self-regulation of Pir, a regulatory protein responsible for hyperinduction of pectate lyase in Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 385-390

  Nomura, Kinya ^a   Nasser, William ^b   Tsuyumu, Shinji ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONED GENE; PECTATE LYASE; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0033135461     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.5.385     Document Type: Article

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