Hypersensitive response and acyl-homoserine lactone production of the fire blight antagonists Erwinia tasmaniensis and Erwinia billingiae

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 416-424

  Jakovljevic, Vladimir ^a   Jock, Susanne ^a   Du, Zhiqiang ^a   Geider, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; N ACYLHOMOSERINE LACTONE; SUCROSE;

APPLE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ERWINIA BILLINGIAE; ERWINIA TASMANIENSIS; FIRE BLIGHT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PEAR; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; TOBACCO; TREE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACYL-BUTYROLACTONES; ANTIBODIES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MALUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PYRUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TOBACCO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ERWINIA BILLINGIAE; MALUS X DOMESTICA; NEGIBACTERIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PYRUS;

EID: 77953547036     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2008.00043.x     Document Type: Article

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