Analysis of the C-terminal secretion signal of the Rhizobium leguminosarum nodulation protein NodO; a potential system for the secretion of heterologous proteins during nodule invasion

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 671-680

  Sutton, J M ^a,b   Peart, J ^a   Dean, G ^a   Downie, J A ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

infection; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE;

EID: 0030298298     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-9-0671     Document Type: Article

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