The genomes of closely related Pantoea ananatis maize seed endophytes having different effects on the host plant differ in secretion system genes and mobile genetic elements

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Sheibani Tezerji, Raheleh ^a,b   Naveed, Muhammad ^a,c   Jehl, Marc André ^b   Sessitsch, Angela ^a   Rattei, Thomas ^b   Mitter, Birgit ^a  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Pantoea ananatis; Plant growth promotion; Seed endophyte

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTAXIS METHYL ACCEPTING RECEPTOR; CHEMOTAXIS PROTEIN; FLAGELLAR ASSEMBLY PROTEIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; PROTON COUPLED FOLATE TRANSPORTER; RNA 16S; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLAN ENDO 1, 3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA ISOLATION; ENDOPHYTE; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; ICMF GENE; MAIZE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANTOEA; PANTOEA ANANATIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH; PLASMID; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SCIN GENE;

PANTOEA; PANTOEA ANANATIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84931262258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00440     Document Type: Article

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