Quorum Sensing in Nitrogen-Fixing Rhizobia

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 574-592

  González, Juan E ^a   Marketon, Melanie M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; FLAVONOID;

BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CELL COMMUNICATION; ECOLOGY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEGUME; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

NITROGEN FIXATION; RHIZOBIUM; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; FABACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 18344416160     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.67.4.574-592.2003     Document Type: Review

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