Symbiotic competence, genetic diversity and plasmid profiles of Egyptian isolates of a Rhizobium species from Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) Dewit

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 347-352

  Kuykendall, L D ^a   Swelim, D M ^b   Hashem, F M ^a   Abdel Wahab, S M ^b   Hegazi, N I ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Agriculture Research Center   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES;

EGYPTIANS; GENETICS DIVERSITIES; LEGUME TREES; LEUCAENA; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; PLASMID PROFILE; REFERENCE STRAINS; RHIZOBIUM SPECIES; SOIL FERTILITY; SYMBIOTICS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHIZOBIUM;

LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA;

EID: 0029985848     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.1996.tb01176.x     Document Type: Article

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