Biological control of soil-borne pathogens by fluorescent pseudomonads

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 307-319

  Haas, Dieter ^a   Défago, Geneviève ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DIACETYLPHLOROGLUCINOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; PHENAZINE DERIVATIVE; PYOCYANINE; PYOLUTEORIN; PYOVERDINE; PYRROLNITRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; VISCOSINAMIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BLACK ROOT ROT; DAMPING OFF DISEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GREENHOUSE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HOST; HYPHOMYCETES; INFECTION RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PYTHIUM; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; REVIEW; ROOT ROT; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCES; WILTING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOSIS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PSEUDOMONAS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; HYPHOMYCETES; PHYTOPHTHORA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS GROUP; PYTHIUM; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 15944409255     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1129     Document Type: Review

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