Symbiosis-induced cascade regulation of the Mesorhizobium loti R7A VirB/D4 Type IV secretion system

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-261

  Hubber, Andree M ^a   Sullivan, John T ^a   Ronson, Clive W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NODD PROTEIN, BACTERIA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTOSE OPERON; LEGUME; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NODULATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHIZOBIACEAE; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; VIR; VIRUSES;

EID: 33847156886     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-3-0255     Document Type: Article

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