Isolation and characterization of a pSym locus of Rhizobium sp. BR816 that extends nodulation ability of narrow host range Phaseolus vulgaris symbionts to Leucaena leucocephala

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 74-77

  Van Rhijn, Pieternel ^a,b   Luyten, Ellen ^a   Vlassak, Katrien ^a   Vanderleyden, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

nodO; nodS

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; NODO PROTEIN, LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; NODO PROTEIN, RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; LEGUME; MEDICINAL PLANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; FABACEAE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0030019179     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-9-0074     Document Type: Article

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