Genes essential for nod factor production and nodulation are located on a symbiotic amplicon (AMPRtrCFN299pc60) in Rhizobium tropici

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2866-2874

  Mavingui, Patrick ^a   Laeremans, Toon ^a,b   Flores, Margarita ^a   Romero, David ^a   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^a   Palacios, Rafael ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b F A Janssens Lab of Genetics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MARKER GENE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI;

EID: 0032469906     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.11.2866-2874.1998     Document Type: Article

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