FnrN controls symbiotic nitrogen fixation and hydrogenase activities in Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae UPM791

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 5264-5270

  Gutiérrez, Delia ^a   Hernando, Yolanda ^a   Palacios, José Manuel ^a   Imperial, Juan ^b   Ruiz Argüeso, Tomás ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; SATIVUM;

EID: 1842406020     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.17.5264-5270.1997     Document Type: Article

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