Sequence and mutational analysis of the common nodBCIJ region of Rhizobium sp. (Oxytropis arctobia) strain N33, a nitrogen-fixing microsymbiont of both arctic and temperate legumes

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 523-531

  Cloutier, Jean ^a   Laberge, Serge ^b   Prévost, Danielle ^b   Antoun, Hani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ASTRAGALUS CICER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICER; ONOBRYCHIS VICIIFOLIA; OXYTROPIS; OXYTROPIS ARCTOBIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.;

EID: 0030217897     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-9-0523     Document Type: Article

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