Probing the Sinorhizobium meliloti-alfalfa symbiosis using temperature-sensitive and impaired-function citrate synthase mutants

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 134-141

  Grzemski, Wojciech ^a   Akowski, James P ^a   Kahn, Michael L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rhizobium

Indexed keywords

CITRATE SYNTHASE;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MUTATION; PLANT ROOTS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO SATIVA; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 12444338966     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-0134     Document Type: Article

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