Nod factors of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae and their fucosylated derivatives stimulate a nod factor cleaving activity in pea roots and are hydrolyzed in vitro by plant chitinases at different rates

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 799-807

  Ovtsyna, Alexandra O ^a   Schultze, Michael ^b,e   Tikhonovich, Igor A ^a   Spaink, Herman P ^c   Kondorosi, Éva ^b   Kondorosi, Ádám ^b   Staehelin, Christian ^b,d  

^a ALL RUSSIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; CULTIVAR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUCOSYLATION; HYDROLASE; NOD FACTOR; NODULATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0033874160     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.8.799     Document Type: Article

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