Plasmid-encoded catabolic genes in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii: Evidence for a plant-inducible rhamnose locus involved in competition for nodulation

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1175-1185

  Oresnik, Ivan J ^a   Pacarynuk, Laurie A ^a   O'Brien, Shelley A P ^a   Yost, Christopher K ^a   Hynes, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Rhizosphere

Indexed keywords

GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTAGENESIS; NODULATION; PLASMID; RHAMNOSE; RIBITOL; SORBITOL; TRANSPOSON;

RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 0031768952     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.12.1175     Document Type: Article

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