Chemotaxis of rhizobium SP.S2 towards Cajanus cajan root exudate and its major components

Current Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 205-209

  Pandya, Snehal ^b   Iyer, Poornima ^b   Gaitonde, Vaishali ^b   Parekh, Trilok ^a,b   Desai, Anjana ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; NARINGENIN; SUGAR ACID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; INFECTION; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

CAJANUS CAJAN; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0033002579     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00006788     Document Type: Article

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