Agrobacterium rhizogenes-transformed roots of Medicago truncatula for the study of nitrogen-fixing and endomycorrhizal symbiotic associations

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 695-700

  Boisson Dernier, Aurélien ^a   Chabaud, Mireille ^a   Garcia, Fernand ^a   Bécard, Guillaume ^b   Rosenberg, Charles ^a   Barker, David G ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC GENE; ENDOMYCORRHIZA; EXPLANT; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HAIRY ROOT; INOCULATION; KANAMYCIN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; ORGANOGENESIS; PLANT MODEL; REPORTER GENE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; GLOMUS INTRARADICES; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0034998287     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2001.14.6.695     Document Type: Article

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