The Gram-positive side of plant-microbe interactions: Minireview

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Francis, Isolde ^a   Holsters, Marcelle ^a   Vereecke, Danny ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 73349090899     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01989.x     Document Type: Review

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