Expression of a single, host-specific, bacterial pathogenicity gene in plant cells elicits division, enlargement, and cell death

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 556-560

  Duan, Y P ^a   Castaneda A ^a   Zhao, G ^a   Erdos, G ^a   Gabriel, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avirulence; Citrus canker; NLS; Nuclear localization; Virulence

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT CELL; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRUS; XANTHOMONAS CITRI;

EID: 0344948147     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.6.556     Document Type: Article

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