luxR homolog avhR in Agrobacterium vitis affects the development of a grape-specific necrosis and a tobacco hypersensitive response

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 185-192

  Hao, Guixia ^a   Zhang, Hongsheng ^b   Zheng, Desen ^a   Burr, Thomas J ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ASPARTIC ACID; GENE PRODUCT; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; PROTEIN AVHR; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAPE; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TOBACCO;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NECROSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; TOBACCO; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VITIS;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; VITIS; VITIS SP.;

EID: 11144262267     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.1.185-192.2005     Document Type: Article

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