Identification and characterization of a well-defined series of coronatine biosynthetic mutants of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 162-174

  Brooks, David M ^a   Hernández Guzmán, Gustavo ^b   Kloek, Andrew P ^a,d   Alarcón Chaidez, Francisco ^b,e   Sreedharan, Aswathy ^b   Rangaswamy, Vidhya ^b,f   Peñaloza Vázquez, Alejandro ^b   Bender, Carol L ^b   Kunkel, Barbara N ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Campus Box 1137 ^*  (United States)

^d Divergence Inc   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^f CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Disease lesions

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CELL FUSING AGENT VIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE PV. TOMATO;

EID: 1642304677     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.2.162     Document Type: Article

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