Expression and regulation of phosphate stress inducible genes in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1094-1101

  Summers, Michael L ^a   Elkins, James G ^a   Elliott, Brian A ^a   McDermott, Timothy R ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetyl phosphate; Heal shock protein; Polysaccharide

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBON; CLONED GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCING; NITROGEN METABOLISM; PHOSPHATE; PROMOTER REGION; STRESS TOLERANCE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0032213669     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1998.11.11.1094     Document Type: Article

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