Chemotaxis movement and attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to Phalaenopsis violacea orchid tissues: An assessment of early factors influencing the efficiency of gene transfer

Tropical Life Sciences Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-49

  Subramaniam, Sreeramanan ^a,b   Balasubramaniam, Vinod ^a   Poobathy, Ranjetta ^a   Sreenivasan, Sasidharan ^c   Rathinam, Xavier ^a  

^a AIMST UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE INFORMM   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens; Bacterial Attachment; Chemotaxis; Phalaenopsis violacea

Indexed keywords

ASSAY; ATTRACTANT; BACTERIUM; CHEMOTAXIS; GENE TRANSFER;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORCHIDACEAE; PHALAENOPSIS VIOLACEA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 78149392110     PISSN: 19853718     EISSN: 19858345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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