External pH: An environmental signal that helps to rationalize pel gene duplication in Erwinia chrysanthemi

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 882-886

  Nachin, Laurence ^a   Barras, Frédéric ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Plant pathogen

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CATALYSIS; CHICORY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE DUPLICATION; ISOENZYME; PH; SOFT ROT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRULENCE;

ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI;

EID: 0033867834     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.8.882     Document Type: Article

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