Hopanoid lipids in bradyrhizobium and other plant-associated bacteria and cloning of the bradyrhizobium japonicum squalene-hopene cyclase gene

Plant and Soil

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 107-112

  Kannenberg, E L ^a,c   Perzl, M ^a   Muller P ^b   Hartner T ^a   Poralla, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bradyrhizobium; hopanoids; nitrogen fixation; plant microbe interaction; Rhizobium; squalene hopene cyclase

Indexed keywords

AGROBACTERIUM; AZOARCUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYLLOBACTERIUM; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0030464215     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00035063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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