Enhanced nitrogen fixation in a Rhizobium etli ntrC mutant that overproduces the Bradyrhizobium japonicum symbiotic terminal oxidase cbb3

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2015-2019

  Soberón, Mario ^a   López, Oswaldo ^a   Morera, Claudia ^a   Girard, Maria De Lourdes ^b   Tabche, Maria Luisa ^a   Miranda, Juan ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CYTOCHROME C; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NITROGEN FIXATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SPECTROSCOPY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 18744432599     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.5.2015-2019.1999     Document Type: Article

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