Insecticidal Bacillus thuringiensis Silences Erwinia carotovora Virulence by a New Form of Microbial Antagonism, Signal Interference

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 954-960

  Dong, Yi Hu ^a   Zhang, Xi Fen ^a   Xu, Jin Ling ^a   Zhang, Lian Hui ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; BACTERIA; DEGRADATION; ENZYMES; GENES; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

ANTAGONISM; MUTATION; PLANT PATHOGENS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; HOMOSERINE; INSECTICIDE; LACTONE DERIVATIVE; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AIIA GENE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOSENSOR; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE MUTATION; INSECT CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POTATO; QUORUM SENSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; ANTIBIOSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PLANT DISEASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIRULENCE;

BACILLUS FUSIFORMIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSECTA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; POSIBACTERIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 2342617444     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.2.954-960.2004     Document Type: Article

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