Plant responses to Agrobacterium tumefaciens and crown gall development

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Gohlke, Jochen ^a   Deeken, Rosalia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Metabolomic changes; Morphological adaptions; Phytohormones; Plant defenses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901005318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00155     Document Type: Review

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