Characterization of Erwinia chrysanthemi, the soft-rot pathogen of white-flowered calla lily, based on pathogenicity and PCR-RFLP and PFGE analyses

Plant Pathology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 530-536

  Lee, Y A ^a   Chen, K P ^a   Hsu, Y W ^a  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bacterial soft rot; Calla lily; Detection and diagnosis; pelZ; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CLONE; ELECTROKINESIS; INDUCED RESPONSE; INOCULATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; MUTATION; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTATO; SEGMENTATION; STEM; SYMPTOM;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

ALLIUM CEPA; APIUM GRAVEOLENS VAR. DULCE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; PHALAENOPSIS APHRODITE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZANTEDESCHIA; ZANTEDESCHIA AETHIOPICA;

EID: 33746217800     PISSN: 00320862     EISSN: 13653059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3059.2006.01392.x     Document Type: Article

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