High-resolution transcriptional analysis of the symbiotic plasmid of Rhizobium sp. NGR234

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 415-425

  Perret, Xavier ^a   Freiberg, Christoph ^b   Rosenthal, André ^b   Broughton, William J ^a   Fellay, Rémy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0032922202     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01361.x     Document Type: Article

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