Comparative genomics of Japanese Erwinia pyrifoliae strain Ejp617 with closely related erwinias

Genome

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 83-90

  Thapa, Shree P ^a   Park, Duck H ^a   Kim, Won S ^b   Choi, Beom S ^c   Lim, Jong S ^c   Choi, Ik Y ^c   Hur, Jang H ^a   Lim, Chun K ^a  

^a Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^b Norgen Biotek Corporation   (Canada)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bacterial shoot blight; Japanese Erwinia pyrifoliae; Pathogenicity genes; Whole genome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLASSIFICATION; ERWINIA; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; ERWINIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUTAGENESIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ERWINIA AMYLOVORA; ERWINIA PYRIFOLIAE; PYRUS;

EID: 84875831597     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/gen-2012-0094     Document Type: Article

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