Expression of cyanobacterial genes involved in heterocyst differentiation and dinitrogen fixation along a plant symbiosis development profile

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 436-443

  Wang, Chun Mei ^a   Ekman, Martin ^b   Bergman, Birgitta ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; GUNNERA; GUNNERA MAGELLANICA; GUNNERA MANICATA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; NOSTOC;

EID: 1642489154     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.4.436     Document Type: Article

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