Characterization of a symbiotically defective serine auxotroph of Mesorhizobium ciceri

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 263, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 244-251

  Das, Subrata K ^a   Gautam, Uma Shankar ^b   Chakrabartty, Pran K ^c   Singh, Aqbal ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE ON PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Mesorhizobium ciceri; Serine auxotroph; Symbiotic nitrogen fixation; Transposon mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; NITROGEN; SERINE;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CATALYSIS; CHICKPEA; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM CICERI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; WILD TYPE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CICER; CULTURE MEDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT ROOTS; SERINE; SYMBIOSIS;

CICER ARIETINUM; MESORHIZOBIUM CICERI;

EID: 33748804659     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00424.x     Document Type: Article

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