Functional and regulatory analysis of the two copies of the fixNOQP operon of Rhizobium leguminosarum strain VF39

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 605-616

  Schlüter, Andreas ^a   Patschkowski, Thomas ^a   Quandt, Jürgen ^b,d   Selinger, L Brent ^c   Weidner, Stephan ^a   Krämer, Maria ^a   Zhou, Luming ^c,e   Hynes, Michael F ^b   Priefer, Ursula B ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d AgrEvo Canada Inc   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fnr like regulators

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE;

EID: 1842296961     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.5.605     Document Type: Article

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