Molecular basis of symbiotic promiscuity

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 180-201

  Perret, Xavier ^a   Staehelin, Christian ^b   Broughton, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; FLAVONOID;

ACETYLATION; GENE CONTROL; GLYCOSYLATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYDROLYSIS; LEGUME; METHYLATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

AZORHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; EUKARYOTA; MESORHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0034108288     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.64.1.180-201.2000     Document Type: Review

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