The linear chromosome of the plant-pathogenic mycoplasma 'Candidatus Phytoplasma mali'

BMC Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kube, Michael ^a   Schneider, Bernd ^b   Kuhl, Heiner ^a   Dandekar, Thomas ^c   Heitmann, Katja ^a   Migdoll, Alexander M ^a   Reinhardt, Richard ^a   Seemüller, Erich ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID; MALIC ACID; MALTOSE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 23S; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

APPLE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL PLANT DISEASE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; DNA REPAIR; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXCISION REPAIR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INVERTED TERMINAL REPEAT; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PHYTOPLASMA; PHYTOPLASMA ASTERIS; PHYTOPLASMA MALI; PHYTOPLASMA PRUNORUM; PHYTOPLASMA PYRI; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PHYTOPLASMA MALI; HEXAPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MOLLICUTES; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMATALES; PHYTOPLASMA ASTERIS;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MALUS; OPERON; PHYTOPLASMA; PLANTS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SOS RESPONSE (GENETICS); VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 47249123775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-306     Document Type: Article

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