Polygalacturonase is a virulence factor in Agrobacterium tumefaciens biovar 3.

doi:10.1128/jb.173.20.6547-6552.1991

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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 sui...

Topics

Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Blotting, Southern
Cloning, Molecular
DNA Transposable Elements
Escherichia coli
Fruit
Isoelectric Point
Mutagenesis, Insertional
Mutation
Polygalacturonase
Solanum tuberosum

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