Biocontrol ability of fluorescent pseudomonads genetically dissected: Importance of positive feedback regulation

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 290-297

  Haas, Dieter ^a   Blumer, Caroline ^a   Keel, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; RHIZOBIACEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS GROUP; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIALES;

EID: 0034029217     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(00)00098-7     Document Type: Review

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