The hrp genes of Pseudomonas cichorii are essential for pathogenicity on eggplant but not on lettuce

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2920-2928

  Hojo, Hiroshi ^a   Koyanagi, Makoto ^a   Tanaka, Masayuki ^a   Kajihara, Shigeru ^a   Ohnishi, Kouhei ^a   Kiba, Akinori ^a   Hikichi, Yasufumi ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN HRP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUBERGINE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; LETTUCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS CICHORII; PSEUDOMONAS VIRIDIFLAVA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

LACTUCA; PSEUDOMONAS CICHORII; PSEUDOMONAS VIRIDIFLAVA; SOLANUM MELONGENA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOMIC LIBRARY; LETTUCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPERON; PLANT DISEASES; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOLANUM MELONGENA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 55549132961     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/021097-0     Document Type: Article

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