Reexamining the Role of the Accessory Plasmid pAtC58 in the Virulence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Strain C58

Plant Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 989-999

  Nair, Gauri R ^a   Liu, Zhenying ^a   Binns, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; GENES; PROTEINS; STRAIN;

GENE EXPRESSION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; VIR;

EID: 0344152244     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.030262     Document Type: Article

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