A Lotus japonicus nodulation system based on heterologous expression of the fucosyl transferase NodZ and the acetyl transferase NolL in Rhizobium leguminosarum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 475-479

  Bras, Cristina Pacios ^a   Jordá, Meritxell Alberich ^a   Wijfjes, André H M ^a   Harteveld, Marga ^a   Stuurman, Nico ^a   Thomas Oates, Jane E ^b   Spaink, Herman P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetyl fucose; Mass spectrometry; Nod factors

Indexed keywords

ACETYLATION; ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMINOETHOXYVINYLGLYCINE; ETHYLENE INHIBITOR; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; GENETIC STRAIN; HETEROLOGOUS PRODUCT; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; NODULATION; PLANT GROWTH; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; LOTUS JAPONICUS; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE;

EID: 0034100991     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.4.475     Document Type: Article

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