Rapid Identification and Differentiation of the Soft Rot Erwinias by 16S-23S Intergenic Transcribed Spacer-PCR and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analyses

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 4070-4076

  Toth, I K ^a   Avrova, A O ^a   Hyman, L J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; ERWINIA; EVALUATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ERWINIA; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S;

EID: 0035464185     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.9.4070-4076.2001     Document Type: Article

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