Formation of polar bundles of pili and the behavior of azospirillum brasilense cells in a semiliquid agar

Mikrobiologiya

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 662-667

  Shelud'ko, A V ^a   Katsy, E I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Azospirillum brasilense; Phenotypic variation; Polar bundle of pili; Twitching motility

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGAR; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; CULTURE MEDIA; ENGLISH ABSTRACT; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0035463615     PISSN: 00263656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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