Effect of drought on the growth and survival of the stress-tolerant bacterium Rhizobium sp. NBRI2505 sesbania and its drought-sensitive transposon Tn5 mutant

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 368-377

  Rehman, Ateequr ^a   Nautiyal, Chandra Shekhar ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; MACROGOL; MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESICCATION; DROUGHT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SESBANIA; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPOSON; DISASTER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; INDIA; LEGUME; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PH;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SESBANIA; TRANSPOSON TN5; TRANSPOSONS;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FABACEAE; HEAT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDIA; MUTAGENESIS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RHIZOBIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0036835465     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3770-1     Document Type: Article

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