The coexistence of symbiosis and pathogenicity-determining genes in Rhizobium rhizogenes strains enables them to induce nodules and tumors or hairy roots in plants

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1325-1332

  Velázquez, Encarna ^a   Peix, Alvaro ^b   Zurdo Piñeiro, José Luis ^a   Palomo, José Luis ^c   Mateos, Pedro F ^a   Rivas, Raúl ^a   Muñoz Adelantado, Estefanía ^d   Toro, Nicolás ^d   García Benavides, Pablo ^c   Martínez Molina, Eustoquio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c Regional Diagnostic Centre (CRD)   (Spain)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BEAN; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHASEOLUS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SYMBIOSIS; VIRULENCE;

AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM; VIR; VIRUSES (INFECTIVE AGENTS);

EID: 27944463058     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-18-1325     Document Type: Article

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