Production of Sinorhizobium meliloti nod gene activator and repressor flavonoids from Medicago sativa roots

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 784-794

  Zuanazzi, José Angelo Silveira ^a,c   Clergeot, Pierre Henri ^a   Quirion, Jean Charles ^a   Husson, Henri Philippe ^a   Kondorosi, Adam ^a,b   Ratet, Pascal ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

2' methoxy isoliquiritigenin; 7,4' dihydroxyflavone; Daidzein; Formononetin; Isoliquiritigenin; Liquiritigenin

Indexed keywords

CELL DIVISION; CHEMOATTRACTANT; COUMESTROL; FLAVONOID; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LEGUME; MEDICARPIN; NODULATION; PHYTOALEXIN; PLANT GROWTH; RHIZOBIUM; SECONDARY METABOLITE; SYMBIOSIS;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0031820934     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.8.784     Document Type: Article

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