Photosynthetic bradyrhizobia from Aeschynomene spp. are specific to stem-nodulated species and form a separate 16S ribosomal DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism group

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3084-3094

  Molouba, Flore ^a   Lorquin, Jean ^a   Willems, Anne ^b   Hoste, Bart ^b   Giraud, Eric ^c   Dreyfus, Bernard ^c   Gillis, Monique ^b   De Lajudie, Philippe ^a,b,c   Masson Boivin, Catherine ^c  

^a Laboratoire de Microbiologie   (Senegal)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; SYMBIOSIS;

AESCHYNOMENE AFRASPERA; AESCHYNOMENE CILIATA; AESCHYNOMENE ELAPHROXYLON; AESCHYNOMENE INDICA; AESCHYNOMENE NILOTICA; AESCHYNOMENE SENSITIVA; AESCHYNOMENE TAMBACOUNDENSIS; AESCHYNOMENE UNIFLORA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM SP.; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTORHIZOBIUM; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

EID: 0032975893     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.7.3084-3094.1999     Document Type: Article

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