Expression of MsLEC1 transgenes in alfalfa plants causes symbiotic abnormalities

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 16-26

  Brill, Laurence M ^a,b   Fujishige, Nancy A ^a   Hackworth, Cheryl A ^a,c   Hirsch, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GENOMICS INSTITUTE OF THE NOVARTIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nodule development; Transgenic plants

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; EUKARYOTA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MELILOTUS; MELILOTUS ALBA; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI 1021;

MESSENGER RNA; PLANT LECTIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LECTINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RNA, MESSENGER; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 1642547116     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.2004.17.1.16     Document Type: Article

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