Distribution of Medicago species and their microsymbionts in a saline region of Algeria

Arid Land Research and Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 219-231

  Merabet, C ^a,b   Bekki, A ^a   Benrabah, N ^a   Baba Hamed Bey, M ^a   Bouchentouf, L ^a   Ameziane, H ^a   Rezki, M A ^a   Domergue, O ^b   Cleyet Marel, J C ^b   Avarre, J C ^b   Bena G ^b   Bailly, X ^b   De Lajudie, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SYMBIOSES TROPICALES ET MÉDITERRANÉENNES   (France)

Author keywords

Algeria; Medicago; Rhizobium; Salinity

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; HERB; RHIZOBACTERIUM; RNA; SALINITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; YEAST;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; NORTH AFRICA;

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO CILIARIS; MEDICAGO POLYMORPHA; PHYLLOBACTERIUM; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 33745685626     PISSN: 15324982     EISSN: 15324990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15324980600705685     Document Type: Article

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