Role of polyhydroxybutyrate and glycogen as carbon storage compounds in pea and bean bacteroids

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-74

  Lodwig, E M ^a   Leonard, M ^a   Marroqui, S ^b   Wheeler, T R ^a   Findlay, K ^b   Downie, J A ^b   Poole, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); POLY-BETA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE; POLYESTER;

ARTICLE; BEAN; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PEA; PLANT ROOT; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CARBON; GLYCOGEN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MUTATION; PEAS; PHASEOLUS; PLANT ROOTS; POLYESTERS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. PHASEOLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE;

EID: 11144312983     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-0067     Document Type: Article

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