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Polygalacturonase is a virulence factor in Agrobacterium tumefaciens biovar 3.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 1991
Rodriguez-Palenzuela P, Burr T J, Collmer A
Abstract excerpt
Agrobacterium tumefaciens biovar 3 causes both crown gall and root decay of grapes. All biovar 3 strains, regardless of their tumorigenicity, produce in culture a single polygalacturonase with a pI around 4.5. A. tumefaciens biovar 3 strain CG49 was mutagenized with Tn5 by using pSUP2021 as a suicide vector. A mutant strain, CG50, lacking polygalacturonase activity was isolated. The mutation was due to a single...
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