Methylotrophic metabolism is advantageous for Methylobacterium extorquens during colonization of Medicago truncatula under competitive conditions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 7245-7252

  Sy, Abdoulaye ^a   Timmers, Antonius C J ^a   Knief, Claudia ^a   Vorholt, Julia A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON; FLUORESCENCE; FORMALDEHYDE; METHANOL; PLANTS (BOTANY);

GENUS METHYLOBACTERIUM; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; METHANOL DEHYDROGENASE;

METABOLISM;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METHANOL; METHANOL DEHYDROGENASE; METHANOPTERIN; TETRAHYDROMETHANOPTERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BARREL MEDIC; BIOSYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; LEGUME; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; METHYLOTROPHIC BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; METHANOL; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MUTATION; PLANT LEAVES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; METHYLOBACTERIUM; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS;

EID: 30644478662     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.11.7245-7252.2005     Document Type: Article

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