Instability of short-sequence DNA repeats of pear pathogenic Erwinia strains from Japan and Erwinia amylovora fruit tree and raspberry strains

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 268, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 739-749

  Jock, S ^a   Jacob, T ^a,c   Kim, W S ^a   Hildebrand, M ^a   Vosberg, H P ^b   Geider, K ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Asian pear blight; Erwinia strains; Fire blight; Short sequence repeats (SSRs); T4 endonuclease

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; HETERODUPLEX; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; EUROPE; FIRE BLIGHT; FRUIT; GEL; GENE STRUCTURE; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PEAR; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASPBERRY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRESS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TREE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; PROKARYOTA; PYRUS COMMUNIS; PYRUS PYRIFOLIA; RUBUS GLAUCUS;

EID: 0037364904     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-003-0814-6     Document Type: Article

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