Infection-blocking genes of a symbiotic Rhizobium leguminosarum strain that are involved in temperature-dependent protein secretion

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-64

  Bladergroen, M R ^a   Badelt, K ^a   Spaink, H P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Imp locus; Pathogenesis; Protein phosphorylation; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; ANIMALIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; PISUM SATIVUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0037214659     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2003.16.1.53     Document Type: Article

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