Bacterial genes induced within the nodule during the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 837-849

  Oke, Valerie ^a   Long, Sharon R ^a,b  

^a 371 Serra Mall ^*  (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL ADHESION; CYTOPLASM; GENE INDUCTION; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0033007415     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01402.x     Document Type: Article

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