Regulation of Erwinia carotovora hrpLEcc(sigma-LEcc), which encodes an extracytoplasmic function subfamily of sigma factor required for expression of the HRP regulon

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 971-980

  Chatterjee, Asita ^a   Cui, Yaya ^a   Chatterjee, Arun K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERWINIA; ERWINIA CAROTOVORA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM SUBSP. CAROTOVORUM; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036747469     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2002.15.9.971     Document Type: Article

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