Increasing survival and efficacy of a bacterial biocontrol agent of fire blight of rosaceous plants by means of osmoadaptation

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 185-195

  Bonaterra, Anna ^a   Cabrefiga, Jordi ^a   Camps, Jaume ^a   Montesinos, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological control; Fire blight; Osmotic stress; Phyllosphere survival; Pseudomonas fluorescens; Trehalose

Indexed keywords

BETAINE; GLUTAMINE DERIVATIVE; GLYCEROL DERIVATIVE; N ACETYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINAMIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TREHALOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; COLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GROWTH RATE; INOCULATION; OSMOREGULATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SALINITY; SHRUB; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CELL SURVIVAL; DESICCATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; FIRE BLIGHT; FLOWER; HUMIDITY; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNTHESIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DESICCATION; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; FLOWERS; OSMOSIS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; ROSACEAE; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PYRUS;

EID: 34250006232     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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