Sinorhizobium fredii USDA257, a cultivar-specific soybean symbiont, carries two copies of y4yA and y4yB, two open reading frames that are located in a region that encodes the type III protein secretion system

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1010-1014

  Jiang, Guoqiao ^a   Krishnan, Hari B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CULTIVAR; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC STRAIN; MUTANT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; EMBRYOPHYTA; GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SINORHIZOBIUM SAHELI;

EID: 0033837571     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.9.1010     Document Type: Article

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