Crown gall of stone fruits and nuts, economic significance and diversity of its causal agents: Tumorigenic Agrobacterium spp

Journal of Plant Pathology

Volumn 92, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Pulawska, J ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POMOLOGY AND FLORICULTURE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Genomovar; Host range; Opines; Plasmid content; Rhizobium; Ti plasmid

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 78649775121     PISSN: 11254653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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