Genome comparison of the epiphytic bacteria Erwinia billingiae and E. tasmaniensis with the pear pathogen E. pyrifoliae

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kube, Michael ^a   Migdoll, Alexander M ^a   Gehring, Isabel ^b,c   Heitmann, Katja ^a   Mayer, Yvonne ^a   Kuhl, Heiner ^a   Knaust, Florian ^a   Geider, Klaus ^b   Reinhardt, Richard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b Institute for Plant Protection in Fruit Crops and Viticulture   (Germany)

^c Heidelberg Inst of Plant Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; SORBITOL; SUCROSE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIPHYTE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ERWINIA BILLINGIAE; ERWINIA PYRIFOLIAE; ERWINIA TASMANIENSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PEAR; PLANT DISEASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ERWINIA BILLINGIAE; ERWINIA PYRIFOLIAE; PYRUS;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; ERWINIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PYRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 77953655210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-393     Document Type: Article

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