The transcriptional activator rfiA is quorum-sensing regulated by cotranscription with the luxI homolog pcol and is essential for plant virulence in Pseudomonas corrugata

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1514-1522

  Licciardello, Grazia ^a,b   Bertani, Iris ^c   Steindler, Laura ^c   Bella, Patrizia ^b   Venturi, Vittorio ^c   Catara, Vittoria ^b  

^a Science and Technology Park of Sicily   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PSEUDOMONAS; QUORUM SENSING; TOMATO; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PSEUDOMONAS; QUORUM SENSING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS CORRUGATA; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA;

EID: 72949115136     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-22-12-1514     Document Type: Article

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