Rhizobium etli CE3 carries vir gene homologs on a self-transmissible plasmid

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1019-1021

  Bittinger, M A ^a   Gross, J A ^a   Widom, J ^b   Clardy, J ^b   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE; GENE LOCATION; NODULATION; OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIR GENE HOMOLOG; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; VIR;

EID: 0033842590     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.9.1019     Document Type: Article

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