Mimosine, a toxin produced by the tree-legume Leucaena provides a nodulation competition advantage to mimosine-degrading Rhizobium strains

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1605-1613

  Soedarjo, M ^a   Borthakur, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL DEGRADATION; CATABOLISM; CULTURE MEDIUM; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; MIMOSINE; NODULATION; NUTRIENT; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEUCAENA; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCOCEPHALA; LEUCOCEPHALA LEUCOCEPHALA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0032192689     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0717(97)00180-6     Document Type: Article

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