Mutations conferring azide resistance enhance symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Rhizobium loti

Plant and Soil

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 221-229

  Sharma, Shashi B ^a   Sakadevan, K ^a   Sharma, Sunila ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Azide resistance; Nitrogen fixation; Phenethyl alcohol; Rhizobium loti; TMPD oxidase

Indexed keywords

RHIZOBIUM LOTI;

EID: 0030971595     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004259220587     Document Type: Article

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