Erwinia amylovora expresses fast and simultaneously hrp/dsp virulence genes during flower infection on apple trees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Pester, Doris ^a   Milčevičová, Renáta ^b,c   Schaffer, Johann ^a   Wilhelm, Eva ^b   Blümel, Sylvia ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MAX F PERUTZ LABORATORIES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALICYLIC ACID; VIRULENCE FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

APPLE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DSP GENE; DSPA/E GENE; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; FLOWER INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HRP GENE; HRPA GENE; HRPL GENE; HRPN GENE; INOCULATION; MALMIR1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT DISEASE; PR 1 GENE; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREE; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; FLOWER; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; NEGIBACTERIA;

ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; FLOWERS; GENE EXPRESSION; MALUS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PROTEINS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84857853497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032583     Document Type: Article

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