Mutation in GDP-fucose synthesis genes of Sinorhizobium fredii alters nod factors and significantly decreases competitiveness to nodulate soybeans

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 207-217

  Lamrabet, Youssef ^e   Bellogín, Ramón A ^a   Cubo, Teresa ^a   Espuny, Rosario ^a   Gil, Antonio ^a   Krishnan, Hari B ^b   Megias, Manuel ^e   Javier Ollero, Francisco ^a   Pueppke, Steven G ^b   Ruiz Sainz, José E ^a   Spaink, Herman P ^c   Tejero Mateo, Pilar ^a   Thomas Oates, Jane ^d   Vinardell, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CAJANUS CAJAN; GENE MUTATION; NODULATION; TRANSPOSON;

CAJAN; CAJANUS CAJAN; GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII;

EID: 0033103762     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.3.207     Document Type: Article

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