New insights to the function of phytopathogenic bacterial type III effectors in plants

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2005, Pages 509-531

  Mudgett, Mary Beth ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avirulence proteins; Pathogenesis; TTSS

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIUM; CYTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT; REVIEW;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIA; PLANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 20444368466     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.56.032604.144218     Document Type: Review

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