Disruption of gene pqqA or pqqB reduces plant growth promotion activity and biocontrol of crown gall disease by Rahnella aquatilis HX2

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Li, Lei ^a   Jiao, Ziwei ^b   Hale, Lauren ^c   Wu, Wenliang ^a   Guo, Yanbin ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Yili Normal University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCONIC ACID; PYRROLOQUINOLINEQUINONE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN GALL; DISEASE CONTROL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PH; PHENOTYPE; PLANT GROWTH; PQQA GENE; PQQB GENE; RAHNELLA AQUATILIS; SOLUBILIZATION; SUNFLOWER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT TUMOR; RAHNELLA;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AGROBACTERIUM VITIS; HELIANTHUS; RAHNELLA AQUATILIS; ZEA MAYS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HELIANTHUS; MUTATION; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT TUMORS; PQQ COFACTOR; RAHNELLA;

EID: 84918566070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115010     Document Type: Article

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