Exopolysaccharide structure is not a determinant of host-plant specificity in nodulation of Vicia sativa roots

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1123-1129

  Laus, Marc C ^a   Van Brussel, Anton A N ^a   Kijne, Jan W ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NOD FACTOR, RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; COMMON VETCH; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYMBIOSIS;

CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT ROOTS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VICIA SATIVA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; VICIA SATIVA; VICIA SATIVA SUBSP. NIGRA;

EID: 26944485474     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-1123     Document Type: Article

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