Mesorhizobium loti increases root-specific expression of a calcium-binding protein homologue identified by promoter tagging in Lotus japonicus

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 606-616

  Webb, K Judith ^a   Skøt, Leif ^a   Nicholson, Margaret N ^a   Jørgensen, Bodil ^a   Mizen, Sue ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL MUTANT; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TRANSFER; GENE INSERTION; GENE TAGGING; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GLUCURONIDASE GENE; HOMOZYGOSITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PLANT ROOT; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

LOTUS JAPONICUS; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI;

EID: 0034115568     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2000.13.6.606     Document Type: Article

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