Mutants of Rhizobium tropici strain CIAT899 that do not induce chlorosis in plants

Microbiology

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2607-2617

  O'Connell, Kevin P ^a,b   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   Saville, Barry J ^a,c   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlorosis; glnD; mviN; Nitrogen regulon; Uridylyltransferase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HEXOSE 1 PHOSPHATE URIDYLYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERIC BACTERIA; FUNGI; NEGIBACTERIA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0031663567     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-9-2607     Document Type: Article

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