Restriction of host range by the sym2 allele of Afghan pea is nonspecific for the type of modification at the reducing terminus of nodulation signals

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 418-422

  Ovtsyna, Alexandra O ^a,b   Geurts, Rene ^c   Bisseling, Ton ^c   Lugtenberg, Ben J J ^a   Tikhonovich, Igor A ^b   Spaink, Herman P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ALL RUSSIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BACTERIAL GENE; CULTIVAR; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; INTROGRESSION; NODULATION; PEA; RHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 0031810676     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.5.418     Document Type: Article

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