Host sanctions and the legume-rhizobium mutualism

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6953, 2003, Pages 78-81

  Kiers, E Toby ^a   Rousseau, Robert A ^a   West, Stuart A ^b   Denlson, R Ford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROORGANISMS; NITROGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY);

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

MUTAGENESIS;

ARGON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LEGUME; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SYMBIONT;

AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST; LEGUME; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOYBEAN; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ARGON; ATMOSPHERE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; DIFFUSION; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXYGEN; PLANT ROOTS; SOYBEANS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0041821981     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01931     Document Type: Article

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