Chitin-supplemented foliar application of chitinolytic Bacillus cereus reduces severity of Botrytis gray mold disease in chickpea under controlled conditions

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 98-105

  Kishore, G K ^a,b   Pande, S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^b SASKATOON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affinity chromatography; Cicer arietinum L.; N acetyl glucosaminidase

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCONTROL; DISEASE CONTROL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGI; MOLDS; PURIFICATION; SOILS;

CHITINASES; CICER ARIETINUM; CICER ARIETINUM L; FOLIAR APPLICATION; FOLIAR DISEASE; FOLIAR SPRAYS; GREY MOLD; GREY MOLD DISEASE; N ACETYLS; N-ACETYL GLUCOSAMINIDASE;

CHITIN;

CHITIN; CHITINASE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; COLLOIDS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; FUNGI;

BACTERIUM; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CHITIN; DISEASE CONTROL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGAL DISEASE; GERMINATION; INHIBITION; LEGUME; LYSIS; RHIZOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BOTRYTIS; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CELL CULTURE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CHICKPEA; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RHIZOSPHERE; SPORE GERMINATION;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; BOTRYTIS; CICER ARIETINUM; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 33845738222     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2006.02022.x     Document Type: Article

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