Food safety: What canwe learn from genomics?

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 341-361

  Begley, Máire ^a   Hill, Colin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

comparative genomics; food pathogen; functional genomics; stress responses; virulence

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; FOOD PATHOGENS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; STRESS RESPONSE; VIRULENCE;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCES; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD SUPPLY; PATHOGENS;

FOOD MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMAL; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; FOOD SAFETY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FOOD INSPECTION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENOMICS; HUMANS;

EID: 84855411745     PISSN: 19411413     EISSN: 19411421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.food.080708.100739     Document Type: Article

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