Identification of a transmissible plasmid from an Argentine Sinorhizobium meliloti strain which can be mobilised by conjugative helper functions of the European strain S. meliloti GR4

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-21

  Pistorio, Mariano ^a   Del Papa, María Florencia ^a   Balagué, Laura Josefina ^a   Lagares, Antonio ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Plasmid; Sinorhizobium meliloti

Indexed keywords

PLASMID VECTOR;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONJUGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST RANGE; MOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ARGENTINA (FISH); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BROAD HOST RANGE PLASMIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0142075199     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00454-3     Document Type: Article

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