High-throughput screening and analysis of genes of Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri involved in citrus canker symptom development

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-84

  Yan, Qing ^a   Wang, Nian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CITRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMID; VIRULENCE; XANTHOMONAS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CITRUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISEASES; PLASMIDS; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 84055193598     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-05-11-0121     Document Type: Article

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