Agrobacterium is a definable genus of the family Rhizobaiceae

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1681-1687

  Farrand, Stephen K ^a   van Berkum, Peter B ^b   Oger, Philippe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENUS; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY;

AGROBACTERIUM; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0141592292     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02445-0     Document Type: Article

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