Amino-acid cycling drives nitrogen fixation in the legume-Rhizobium symbiosis

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6933, 2003, Pages 722-726

  Lodwig, E M ^a   Hosie, A H F ^a   Bourdes A ^a   Findlay, K ^b   Allaway, D ^a   Karunakaran, R ^a   Downie, J A ^b   Poole, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; NITROGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); REDUCTION;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

AMINO ACIDS;

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; ASPARAGINE; CARBON; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; NITROGEN;

LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIUM; ENERGY; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ASPARAGINE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PEAS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0037452053     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01527     Document Type: Article

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