A Sinorhizobium meliloti lipopolysaccharide mutant induces effective nodules on the host plant Medicago sativa (Alfalfa) but fails to establish a symbiosis with Medicago truncatula

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 906-914

  Niehaus, K ^a   Lagares, A ^b   Puhler A ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CYTOPLASM; DNA FRAGMENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NODULATION; SDS POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; RHIZOBIACEAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 0031685151     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.9.906     Document Type: Article

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