Cultivar-specific avirulence and virulence functions assigned to avrPphF in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola, the cause of bean halo-blight disease

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 3204-3214

  Tsiamis, George ^a   Mansfield, John W ^a   Hockenhull, Ruth ^a   Jackson, Robert W ^b   Sesma, Ane ^c   Athanassopoulos, Evangelos ^a   Bennett, Mark A ^a   Stevens, Conrad ^a   Vivian, Alan ^b   Taylor, John D ^c   Murillo, Jesus ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Avirulence; Disease resistance; Gene for gene interactions; Hypersensitive reaction; Virulence

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLYCINE MAX; NEGIBACTERIA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. PHASEOLICOLA;

EID: 0034601051     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.13.3204     Document Type: Article

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