Sequence and mutational analysis of the 6.7-kb region containing nodAFEG genes of Rhizobium sp. strain N33: Evidence of DNA rearrangements

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 401-406

  Cloutier, Jean ^a   Laberge, Serge ^b   Antoun, Hani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

nodulation; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031127531     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.3.401     Document Type: Article

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