A novel screening method for isolating exopolysaccharide-deficient mutants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4600-4602

  Liu, Minghsun ^a,b   González, Juan E ^a,c   Willis, Laura B ^a   Walker, Graham C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GALACTOGLUCAN; GLUCAN; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; SUCCINOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; SCREENING TEST; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STAINING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0344193127     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4600-4602.1998     Document Type: Article

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