A small gene family of broad bean codes for late nodulins containing conserved cysteine clusters

Plant Science

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-77

  Frühling, Martin ^a   Albus, Ulrike ^a   Hohnjec, Natalija ^a   Geise, Gerhard ^a   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Perlick, Andreas M ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metal binding; Symbiotic nitrogen fixation; Tissue print hybridization; Vicia faba L.

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; NODULIN;

ARTICLE; BEAN; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034615515     PISSN: 01689452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(99)00219-8     Document Type: Article

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