Type III secretion in plant growth-promoting Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 999-1014

  Preston, Gail M ^a   Bertrand, Nicolas ^a   Rainey, Paul B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVRE PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RSPL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPLAST; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ECOTYPE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST; HRCC GENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; NICOTIANA CLEVELANDII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOSPHERE; RSC GENE; RSP GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NICOTIANA CLEVELANDII; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0035788450     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02560.x     Document Type: Article

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