Nod factor thin-layer chromatography profiling as a tool to characterize symbiotic specificity of rhizobial strains: Application to Sinorhizobium saheli, S. teranga, and Rhizobium sp. strains isolated from Acacia and Sesbania

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 736-747

  Lortet, Gilles ^a,b   Méar, Nathalie ^a   Lorquin, Jean ^a   Dreyfus, Bernard ^a   De Lajudie, Philippe ^a   Rosenberg, Charles ^b   Boivin, Catherine ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SESBANIA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM SAHELI; SINORHIZOBIUM TERANGA; SINORHIZOBIUM TERANGAE;

EID: 0029856768     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-9-0736     Document Type: Article

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