Presence of 16S rRNA genes in multiple replicons in Azospirillum brasilense

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 283-288

  Caballero Mellado, Jesús ^a   López Reyes, Lucía ^b   Bustillos Cristales, Rocío ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Azospirillum minichromosome; Chromosome multiplicity; Endophytic bacterium; Plasmids in Azospirillum; Rhizosphere bacterium

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENOME; MINICHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE;

EID: 0345062225     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00371-7     Document Type: Article

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