Acquisition of an Agrobacterium Ri plasmid and pathogenicity by other α-Proteobacteria in cucumber and tomato crops affected by root mat

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2779-2785

  Weller, S A ^a   Stead, D E ^a   Young, J P W ^b  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CROPS; GENES; PATHOLOGY; RNA;

PROTEOBACTERIA; ROOT MAT-INFECTED CROPS;

BACTERIA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COTYLEDON; CROP; CUCUMBER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAIRY ROOT CULTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCHROBACTRUM; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; ROOT MAT; SINORHIZOBIUM; TOMATO;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUCUMIS SATIVUS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NEGIBACTERIA; OCHROBACTRUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 2442661942     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.2779-2785.2004     Document Type: Article

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