TARTRATE UTILIZATION GENES PROMOTE GROWTH OF AGROBACTERIUM SPP. ON GRAPEVINE

Authors
SALOMONE JY SZEGEDI E COBANOV P OTTEN L
Citation
Jy. Salomone et al., TARTRATE UTILIZATION GENES PROMOTE GROWTH OF AGROBACTERIUM SPP. ON GRAPEVINE, Molecular plant-microbe interactions, 11(8), 1998, pp. 836-838
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences","Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology",Biology
Journal title
Molecular plant-microbe interactions → ACNP
ISSN journal
08940282
Volume
11
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
836 - 838
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-0282(1998)11:8<836:TUGPGO>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Crown gall on grapevine is mainly caused by Agrobacterium vitis, which metabolizes tartrate. Competition experiments between a tartrate-util izing strain and its non-utilizing derivative showed that tartrate uti lization confers a selective advantage on grapevine.