GuaB activity is required in Rhizobium tropici during the early stages of nodulation of determinate nodules but is dispensable for the sinorhizobium meliloti-alfalfa symbiotic interaction

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 742-750

  Collavino, Mónica ^a   Riccillo, Pablo M ^a   Grasso, Daniel H ^a,c   Crespi, Martín ^b   Aguilar, O Mario ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS   (Argentina)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Nodule development

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE FUSION; GENETICS; LEGUME; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FABACEAE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 20644446637     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-0742     Document Type: Article

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