Complete genomic sequence of nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110

DNA Research

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 189-197

  Kaneko, Takakazu ^a   Nakamura, Yasukazu ^a   Sato, Shusei ^a   Minamisawa, Kiwamu ^b   Uchiumi, Toshiki ^c   Sasamoto, Shigemi ^a   Watanabe, Akiko ^a   Idesawa, Kumi ^a   Iriguchi, Mayumi ^a   Kawashima, Kumiko ^a   Kohara, Mitsuyo ^a   Matsumoto, Midori ^a   Shimpo, Sayaka ^a   Tsuruoka, Hisae ^a   Wada, Tsuyuko ^a   Yamada, Manabu ^a   Tabata, Satoshi ^a  

^a KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA110; Genome sequencing; Nitrogen fixation; Nodulation; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; DNA REPLICATION; GENOME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PROTEOBACTERIA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0036928484     PISSN: 13402838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/dnares/9.6.189     Document Type: Article

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