Mutations in the IrpE gene of Ralstonia solanacearum affects Hrp pili production and virulence

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 884-895

  Murata, Yukio ^a   Tamura, Naoyuki ^a   Nakaho, Kazuhiro ^b   Mukaihara, Takafumi ^a  

^a Research Institute for Biological Science OKAYAMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial wilt; Eggplants; fliC; hpx; hrpY; pilA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUBERGINE; CHEMISTRY; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLANUM MELONGENA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33746225226     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-19-0884     Document Type: Article

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