Proteins from cells of Rhizobium fredii bind to DNA sequences preceding nolX, a flavonoid-inducible nod gene that is not associated with a nod box

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 457-463

  Bellato, Claudia M ^a   Balatti, Pedro A ^a,b   Pueppke, Steven G ^a   Krishnan, Hari B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Universidad Nacional de La Plata   (Argentina)

Author keywords

cultivar specificity; Glycine max; nodulation genes; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM FREDII; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII;

EID: 0030219054     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-9-0457     Document Type: Article

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