Arabidopsis thaliana as a tool to identify traits involved in Verticillium dahliae biocontrol by the olive root endophyte Pseudomonas fluorescens PICF7

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Maldonado González, M Mercedes ^a   Bakker, Peter A H M ^b   Prieto, Pilar ^a   Mercado Blanco, Jesús ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Biological control; Endophyte; Induced systemic resistance; Olive; Pseudomonas fluorescens PICF7; Root colonization; Verticillium dahliae

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BOTRYTIS CINEREA; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOT; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE; VERTICILLIUM WILT;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOTRYOTINIA FUCKELIANA; FUNGI; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE;

EID: 84930944636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00266     Document Type: Article

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