A chromosomal insertion toolbox for promoter probing, mutant complementation, and pathogenicity studies in Ralstonia solanacearum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 557-568

  Monteiro, Freddy ^a   Solé, Montserrat ^a   Van Dijk, Irene ^a   Valls, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM;

EID: 84858962010     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-07-11-0201     Document Type: Article

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