Role of RpoS in stress tolerance and environmental fitness of the phyllosphere bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens strain 122

Phytopathology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 689-695

  Stockwell, Virginia O ^a   Hockett, Kevin ^b,c   Loper, Joyce E ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HORTICULTURAL CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Floral surfaces

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

APPLE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWER; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PEAR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TEMPERATURE; TREE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWERS; MALUS; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PYRUS; SIGMA FACTOR; TEMPERATURE; TREES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MALUS X DOMESTICA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS PF-5; PYRUS;

EID: 67650065032     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-99-6-0689     Document Type: Article

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