Root nodulation and infection factors produced by rhizobial bacteria

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2000, Pages 257-288

  Spaink, H P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate signal molecules; Glycobiology; Host specificity; Nod factors; Plant microbe interactions

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CARBOHYDRATE; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; GLYCAN; K ANTIGEN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NOD FACTOR; POLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEGUME; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; RHIZOBIACEAE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SYMBIOSIS;

CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; FABACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RHIZOBIACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0033763889     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.54.1.257     Document Type: Review

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