Symbiotic induction of pyruvate dehydrogenase genes from Sinorhizobium meliloti

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 483-493

  Cabanes, Didier ^a   Boistard, Pierre ^a   Batut, Jacques ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE ISOLATION; MITOCHONDRION; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPERON; PDHA GENE; PDHB GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE; PYRUVIC ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

EID: 0034001486     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.5.483     Document Type: Article

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