Variability in Bradyrhizobium japonicum and B. elkanii seven years after introduction of both the exotic microsymbiont and the soybean host in a cerrados soil

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 270-284

  Batista, Jesiane Stefânia Silva ^a,b   Hungria, Mariangela ^b   Barcellos, Fernando Gomes ^b   Ferreira, Magda Cristiani ^a,b   Mendes, Iêda Carvalho ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRAZIL; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOYBEAN; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRAZIL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SOYBEANS; SYMBIOSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 33847283442     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-006-9149-2     Document Type: Article

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