Selection of a succinoglycan-deficient Rhizobium meliloti mutant producing a partially acetylated (1 → 4)-β-D-glucuronan: Symbiotic properties analysis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 782, Issue , 1996, Pages 53-60

  Gonzales, M L ^a   Courtois, J ^a   Heyraud, A ^b   Colin Morel, P ^b   Michaud, P ^a   Barbotin, J N ^a   Courtois, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche Sur Les Macromolécitles Végétales CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CARBOHYDRATE; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; SUCCINOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALFALFA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT CELL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0029946972     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb40546.x     Document Type: Article

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