Evolutionary diversity of symbiotically induced nodule MADS box genes: Characterization of nmhC5, a member of a novel subfamily

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 665-676

  Heard, Jacqueline ^a,b   Caspi, Michal ^a   Dunn, Kathleen ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEDICAGO SATIVA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0031195040     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.5.665     Document Type: Article

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