The Bradyrhizobium japonicum noeD gene: A negatively acting, genotype-specific nodulation gene for soybean

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 476-488

  Lohrke, S M ^a,e   Day, B ^c   Kumar Kolli, V S ^d   Hancock, R ^d   Yuen, J P Y ^c   De Souza, M L ^b   Stacey, G ^c   Carlson, R ^d   Tong, Z ^a   Hur, H G ^a   Orf, J H ^b   Sadowsky, M J ^a,b  

^a and Climate

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Nod factors

Indexed keywords

CLONED GENE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FAST ATOM BOMBARDMENT MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTAGENESIS; NODULATION; RHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SOYBEAN;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0032100728     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.6.476     Document Type: Article

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