A gene cluster in Agrobacterium vitis homologous to polyketide synthase operons is associated with grape necrosis and hypersensitive response induction on tobacco

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 90-96

  Carle, Sigrid A ^b   Hao, Guixia ^a   Zheng, Desen ^a   Sanni Sanoussi, Tamira ^b   Talarico, Michael J ^b   Hilton, Joshua S ^b   Burr, Thomas J ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium vitis; Hypersensitive response; Necrosis; Polyunsaturated fatty acid synthase gene

Indexed keywords

LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME 2; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GRAPEFRUIT; HYPERSENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIALES; TOBACCO;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PLANT DISEASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; RHIZOBIUM; TOBACCO; VITIS;

AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NICOTIANA TABACUM; RHIZOBIALES; VITACEAE;

EID: 54249144744     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01371.x     Document Type: Article

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