Metabolite transport across symbiotic membranes of legume nodules

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 493-523

  Udvardi, Michael K ^a   Day, David A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteroids; Legumes; Nitrogen fixation; Peribacteroid membrane; Rhizobia; Symbiosome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 0345950222     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.48.1.493     Document Type: Article

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