Nitrogen fixation mutants of Medicago truncatula fail to support plant and bacterial symbiotic gene expression

Plant Physiology

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 671-680

  Starker, Colby G ^a,b   Parra Colmenares, Adriana L ^a   Smith, Lucinda ^a   Mitra, Raka M ^a,b   Long, Sharon R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; GENES; NITROGEN FIXATION;

LEGUME; MUTANT; PLANT INFECTION; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

CROPS;

BACTERIA; FARM CROPS; GENES; NITROGEN; ROOTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 33646846862     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.072132     Document Type: Article

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