Overexpression of BetS, a Sinorhizobium meliloti high-affinity betaine transporter, in bacteroids from Medicago sativa nodules sustains nitrogen fixation during early salt stress adaptation

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 896-903

  Boscari, Alexandre ^a,b   Van De Sype, Ghislaine ^a   Le Rudulier, Daniel ^a   Mandon, Karine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETAINE; BETAINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PROLINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STACHYDRINE;

ADAPTATION; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETAINE; CARRIER PROTEINS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PROLINE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SYMBIOSIS;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 33746224391     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-19-0896     Document Type: Article

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