Molecular basis of symbiosis between Rhizobium and legumes

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6631, 1997, Pages 394-401

  Freiberg, Christoph ^a   Fellay, Rémy ^b   Bairoch, Amos ^b   Broughton, William J ^b   Rosenthal, André ^a   Perret, Xavier ^b  

^a Insitut F Molekulare Biotechnologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA REPLICATION; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FABACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.;

EID: 0030926789     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/387394a0     Document Type: Article

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