The HrpX/HrpY two-component system activates hrpS expression, the first step in the regulatory cascade controlling the Hrp regulon in Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 238-248

  Merighi, Massimo ^a   Majerczak, Doris R ^a   Stover, Elizabeth H ^a,b   Coplin, David L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erwinia stewartii; PAS domains

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PANTOEA; PANTOEA STEWARTII; PANTOEA STEWARTII SUBSP. STEWARTII; PROKARYOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037370947     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2003.16.3.238     Document Type: Article

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