Metabolic versatility and antibacterial metabolite biosynthesis are distinguishing genomic features of the fire blight antagonist pantoea vagans C9-1

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Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Smits, Theo H M ^a   Rezzonico, Fabio ^a   Kamber, Tim ^a   Blom, Jochen ^b   Goesmann, Alexander ^b   Ishimaru, Carol A ^c   FreyJü, Jürg E ^a   Stockwell, Virginia O ^d   Duffy, Brion ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAPDIAMIDE E; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; INDOLEACETIC ACID; IRON; PANTOCIN A; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SIDEROPHORE; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; GLYCOPEPTIDE; INDOLEACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHYTOHORMONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOSAFETY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRE BLIGHT; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC ISLAND; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA; PANTOEA ANANATIS; PANTOEA VAGANS; PLANT DISEASE CONTROL; SPECIES COMPARISON; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMISTRY; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; EUCALYPTUS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; SECRETION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; PANTOEA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; EUCALYPTUS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMICS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; PANTOEA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SIDEROPHORES;

EID: 79960306211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022247     Document Type: Article

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