Key role of bacterial NH4+ metabolism in rhizobium-plant symbiosis

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 203-222

  Patriarca, Eduardo J ^a   Tatè, Rosarita ^a   Iaccarino, Maurizio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PROTEIN; PROTEIN NTR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTEROIDES; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PARASITOSIS; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PLANTS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0036285743     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.66.2.203-222.2002     Document Type: Review

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