Bacteroid formation in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 641-646

  Oke, Valerie ^a   Long, Sharon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE FUNCTION; HOST CELL; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0032693416     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(99)00035-1     Document Type: Review

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