Pathogenicity and other genomic islands in plant pathogenic bacteria

Molecular Plant Pathology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 407-420

  Arnold, Dawn L ^a   Pitman, Andrew ^a   Jackson, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0141674806     PISSN: 14646722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1364-3703.2003.00187.x     Document Type: Review

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