Bacteroids isolated from ineffective nodules of Pisum sativum mutant E135 (sym13) lack nitrogenase activity but contain the two protein components of nitrogenase

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1093-1098

  Suganuma, Norio ^a   Sonoda, Nobutaka ^a   Nakane, Chizuru ^a   Hayashi, Kenji ^a   Hayashi, Takamitsu ^a   Tamaoki, Masanori ^a   Kouchi, Hiroshi ^b  

^a AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteroids; Ineffective nodules; Mutant; Nitrogenase; Pisum sativum; Symbiotic gene

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; DITHIONITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MUTANT; MYOGLOBIN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; NODULATION; PEA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0031791902     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029307     Document Type: Article

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