Molecular mechanisms of Nod factor diversity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 811-817

  Mergaert, Peter ^a,b   Van Montagu, Marc ^a   Holsters, Marcelle ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOSACCHARIDE;

EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOTYPE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0030884553     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1997.mmi526.x     Document Type: Review

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