Refinement of the Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria hrpD and hrpE operon structure

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 559-567

  Weber, Ernst ^a,b   Berger, Carolin ^a,c   Bonas, Ulla ^a   Koebnik, Ralf ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND ORNAMENTAL CROPS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPOSON; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS PV. VESICATORIA;

EID: 34247382095     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-5-0559     Document Type: Article

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