Agrobacterium bv. 1 strains isolated from nodules of tropical legumes

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-132

  De Lajudie, Philippe ^a,b,c   Willems, Anne ^b   Nick, Giselle ^d   Mohamed, Salah Hassan ^e   Torck, Urbain ^b   Coopman, Renata ^b   Filali Maltouf, Abdelkarim ^e   Kersters, Karel ^b   Dreyfus, Bernard ^c   Lindström, Kristina ^d   Gillis, Monique ^b,c  

^a Centre IRD de Bel Air   (Senegal)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Acacia; Africa; Agrobacterium bv. 1; Legume; Rhizobium; Symbiosis; Taxonomy; Tropical tree

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RHIZOBIUM; TAXONOMY;

ACACIA; AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0033028725     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(99)80035-6     Document Type: Article

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