Identification of nodulation promoter (nod-box) regions of Rhizobium galegae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 217-223

  Suominen, Leena ^a   Paulin, Lars ^c   Saano, Aimo ^a,b   Saren, Ari Matti ^c   Tas, Eva ^a   Lindström, Kristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

LysR type promoter; nif gene; nod gene; Rhizobium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; NODULATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COSMIDS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT ROOTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0032801577     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00311-0     Document Type: Article

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