Agrobacterium tumefaciens as an agent of disease

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 380-386

  Escobar, Matthew A ^a   Dandekar, Abhaya M ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0042194784     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(03)00162-6     Document Type: Review

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