Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234 and R. fredii USDA257 share exceptionally broad, nested host ranges

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 293-318

  Pueppke, Steven G ^a,b,c   Broughton, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIFFERENCE; INDONESIA; INOCULATION; LIPOOLIGOSACCHARIDE; MALAYSIA; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION;

ACACIA; APIOS AMERICANA; CAESALPINIEAE; CHAMAECRISTA FASCICULATA; DELONIX REGIA; DESMODIEAE; FABACEAE; GLYCINE MAX; GLYCINE SOJA; INGEAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PARASPONIA ANDERSONII; PHASEOLEAE; RHIZOBIUM FREDII; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SOJA; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 0033118313     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1999.12.4.293     Document Type: Article

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