Disruption of a gene essential for sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol biosynthesis in Sinorhizobium meliloti has no detectable effect on root nodule symbiosis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 666-672

  Weissenmayer, Barbara ^a   Geiger, Otto ^b   Benning, Christoph ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Rhizobium

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TRANSFER; NODULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; SQDB GENE; SULFOQUINOVOSYLDIACYLGLYCEROL; SYMBIOSIS; THYLAKOID;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0034112448     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.6.666     Document Type: Article

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