Rhizobial exopolysaccharides: Genetic control and symbiotic functions

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Skorupska, Anna ^a   Janczarek, Monika ^a   Marczak, Małgorzata ^a   Mazur, Andrzej ^a   Król, Jarosław ^a  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE; POLYMER; SUGAR; SULFUR;

ALFALFA; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDES; CELL SURFACE; CLOVER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC REGULATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LEGUME; MERISTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEA; PLANT DEFENSE; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SYMBIOSIS; ARTICLE;

AZORHIZOBIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; FABACEAE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MESORHIZOBIUM; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SINORHIZOBIUM; TRIFOLIUM; VICIA;

EID: 33645030879     PISSN: 14752859     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-5-7     Document Type: Review

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