Identification of symbiotically defective mutants of Lotus japonicus affected in infection thread growth

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1444-1450

  Lombardo, Fabien ^a   Heckmann, Anne B ^a   Miwa, Hiroki ^a,d   Perry, Jillian A ^a   Yano, Koji ^b   Hayashi, Makoto ^b,e   Parniske, Martin ^c,e   Wang, Trevor L ^a   Downie, J Allan ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Medicago; Nitrogen fixing nodules

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LOTUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; MYCORRHIZA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

ALLELES; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LOTUS; MUTATION; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; MEDICAGO; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 33751578864     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-19-1444     Document Type: Article

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