Stress tolerance and environmental fitness of Pseudomonas fluorescens A506, which has a mutation in rpoS

Phytopathology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 678-688

  Hagen, Mary J ^a,d   Stockwell, Virginia O ^a,e   Whistler, Cheryl A ^b   Johnson, Kenneth B ^a   Loper, Joyce E ^c  

^a Department of Botany and Plant Pathology ^*  (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HORTICULTURAL CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blightban; Fire blight; Fruit surfaces; Phyllosphere

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LONCHOCARPUS CAPASSA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS GROUP; PYRUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, PLANT; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWERS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 84869341189     PISSN: 0031949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PHYTO-99-6-0679     Document Type: Article

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