Global changes in gene expression in Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021 under microoxic and symbiotic conditions

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 292-303

  Becker, Anke ^a   Bergès, Hélène ^b   Krol, Elizaveta ^a   Bruand, Claude ^b   Rüberg, Silvia ^a   Capela, Delphine ^b   Lauber, Emmanuelle ^b   Meilhoc, Eliane ^b   Ampe, Frédéric ^b   De Bruijn, Frans J ^b   Fourment, Joëlle ^b   Francez Charlot, Anne ^b   Kahn, Daniel ^b   Küster, Helge ^a   Liebe, Carine ^b   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Weidner, Stefan ^a   Batut, Jacques ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

Author keywords

Macroarray; Root nodule

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI 1021; UNCULTURED ALPHA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 12144290956     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.3.292     Document Type: Article

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