A Burkholderia strain living inside the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita possesses the vacB gene, which is involved in host cell colonization by bacteria

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-144

  Ruiz Lozano, J M ^a   Bonfante, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CYTOPLASM; DNA FRAGMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC STRAIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMER DNA; RHIZOSPHERE; VACB GENE;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; FUNGUS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION;

BURKHOLDERIA; GIGASPORA MARGARITA;

EID: 0034036919     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002480000008     Document Type: Article

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