Chapter 9 Understanding the Interaction Between an Obligate Hyperparasitic Bacterium, Pasteuria penetrans and its Obligate Plant-Parasitic Nematode Host, Meloidogyne spp.

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2009, Pages 211-245

  Davies, Keith G ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CROP PEST; DAPHNIA; GENOMICS; HOST; HOST RANGE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIFE CYCLE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASTEURIA PENETRANS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROOT KNOT; SPOROGENESIS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; VEGETATIVE STAGE; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DAPHNIA; MELOIDOGYNE; NEMATODA; PASTEURIA PENETRANS; PASTEURIA RAMOSA;

FUCOSE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DAPHNIA; EVOLUTION; FUCOSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TYLENCHOIDEA;

EID: 61849132214     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(08)00609-X     Document Type: Review

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