Cyt toxin expression reveals an inverse regulation of insect and plant virulence factors of Dickeya dadantii

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3290-3301

  Costechareyre, Denis ^a,b,c,d   Dridi, Bedis ^a,b,c,d   Rahbé, Yvan ^a   Condemine, Guy ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; DICKEYA DADANTII; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78650069693     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02305.x     Document Type: Article

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