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A fine control of quorum-sensing communication in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Elise Haudecoeur1, Denis Faure

  • 1Institut des Sciences du Végétal; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Communicative & Integrative Biology
|June 30, 2010
PubMed

Keywords:
AiiBAttMGABAagrocinopinelactonaseprolinevirulence

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