Quorum sensing regulates exopolysaccharide production, motility, and virulence in Pseudomonas syringae

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 682-693

  Quiñones, Beatriz ^a,b   Dulla, Glenn ^a   Lindow, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell to cell signaling; GacA; Swarming

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE, PSEUDOMONAS; LIGASE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE SYNTHASE; N-ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; LEGUME; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TOBACCO; TRANSGENIC PLANT; VIRULENCE;

FABACEAE; GENES, PLANT; LIGASES; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; TOBACCO; VIRULENCE;

EID: 20644452868     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-0682     Document Type: Article

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