Endophytic population of Pantoea agglomerans in citrus plants and development of a cloning vector for endophytes

Journal of Basic Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 338-346

  Andreote, Fernando D ^a   Rossetto, Priscilla B ^a   Souza, Leonardo C A ^a   Marcon, Joelma ^a   Maccheroni Jr , Walter ^b   Azevedo, João L ^a   Araújo, Welington L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b University of Mogi Das Cruzes ^*

^c UNIVERSIDADE DE MOGI DAS CRUZES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryptic plasmids; Population dynamics; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CITRUS FRUIT; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PANTOEA; PLASMID; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XYLEM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CITRUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PANTOEA; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; XYLEM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CITRUS; CITRUS RETICULATA; CITRUS SINENSIS; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS;

EID: 55449112945     PISSN: 0233111X     EISSN: 15214028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jobm.200700341     Document Type: Article

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