A positive role for rhizobitoxine in Rhizobium-legume symbiosis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1082-1089

  Duodu, Samuel ^a   Bhuvaneswari, T V ^a   Stokkermans, Thomas J W ^b   Peters, N Kent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOETHOXYVINYLGLYCINE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ETHYLENE; NODULATION; RHIZOBITOXINE; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS; VIGNA RADIATA;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; VIGNA; VIGNA RADIATA VAR. RADIATA;

EID: 0032710655     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.12.1082     Document Type: Article

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