New Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains that possess high copy numbers of the repeated sequence RSα

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1845-1851

  Minamisawa, Kiwamu ^a   Isawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nakatsuka, Yoko ^b   Ichikawa, Norikazu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0031861305     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.5.1845-1851.1998     Document Type: Article

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