Citrate uptake into Pectobacterium atrosepticum is critical for bacterial virulence

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 547-554

  Urbany, Claude ^a,b   Neuhaus, H Ekkehard ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dickeya dadantii; Erwinia; Pathogen resistance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CITRIC ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; POTATO; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITRIC ACID; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PECTOBACTERIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICKEYA DADANTII; ERWINIA; PECTOBACTERIUM; PECTOBACTERIUM ATROSEPTICUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 43549101373     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-21-5-0547     Document Type: Article

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