Pantoea: Insights into a highly versatile and diverse genus within the Enterobacteriaceae

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 968-984

  Walterson, Alyssa M ^a   Stavrinides, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibiotic production; Biocontrol; Bioremediation; Enterobacter agglomerans; Enterobacterial plant pathogen; Epiphyte; Erwinia herbicola; Human pathogen; Mutualism; Nitrogen fixation; Opportunistic pathogen; Pantoea; Soil; Symbiont

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; BIOREMEDIATION; DACRYOCYSTITIS; DRUG MANUFACTURE; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIPHYTE; EUCALYPTUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST CELL; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANTOEA; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUDANGRASS; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; XYLEM; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY; PANTOEA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS;

EID: 84947568378     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuv027     Document Type: Review

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