A hormogonium regulating locus, hrmUA, of the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme strain ATCC 29133 and its response to an extract of a symbiotic plant partner Anthoceros punctatus

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 280-289

  Cohen, Michael F ^a   Meeks, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

hormogonium differentiation; multicopy inhibition; Nostoc sp. strain ATCC 29133; omega npt cassette; plant cyanobacterial signaling; symbiotic cyanobacterium

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCEROS PUNCTATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; NOSTOC SP.;

EID: 0031104908     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.2.280     Document Type: Article

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