Identification and characterization of a nodH ortholog from the alfalfa-nodulating Or191-like rhizobia

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 138-145

  Del Papa, M F ^a   Pistorio, M ^a   Draghi, W O ^a   Lozano, M J ^a   Giusti, M A ^a   Medina, C ^b   Van Dillewijn, P ^c   Martinez Abarca F ^c   Flores, B Moron ^b   Ruiz Sainz, J E ^b   Megias M ^b   Puhler A ^d   Niehaus, K ^d   Toro, N ^c   Lagares, A ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NODH PROTEIN, SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SULFOTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFOTRANSFERASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO SATIVA; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 33846404100     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-2-0138     Document Type: Article

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