Gluconate metabolism is required for virulence of the soft-rot pathogen pectobacterium carotovorum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1335-1344

  Mole, Beth ^a   Habibi, Sohrab ^a   Dangl, Jeffery L ^a,b,c   Grant, Sarah R ^a,b  

^a Department of Biology ^*  (United States)

^b Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCONATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; VIRULENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 77956762653     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-03-10-0067     Document Type: Article

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