Regulation of symbiotic root nodule development

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue , 1998, Pages 33-57

  Schultze, M ^a   Kondorosi, A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Early nodulin; Lipochitooligosaccharide; Nod factors; Plant signal transduction; Rhizobium

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, PLANT; ION TRANSPORT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RHIZOBIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

FABACEAE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0032438597     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.32.1.33     Document Type: Review

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