Quantification and modeling of plasmid mobilization on seeds and roots

Current Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 455-459

  Sudarshana, Padma ^a,b   Knudsen, Guy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATING; NONHUMAN; PEA; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANT ROOTS; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SEEDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PISUM SATIVUM; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 33744816803     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-005-0298-1     Document Type: Article

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