Strains of Mesorhizobium amorphae and Mesorhizobium tianshanense, carrying symbiotic genes of common chickpea endosymbiotic species, constitute a novel biovar (ciceri) capable of nodulating Cicer arietinum

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 412-418

  Rivas, R ^a,c   Laranjo, M ^b   Mateos, P F ^a   Oliveira, S ^b   Martinez Molina E ^a   Velazquez E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Cicer arietinum; Mesorhizobium; Nitrogen fixation; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

16S RRNA GENE; CHICKPEUM; CICER ARIETINUM; ENDOSYMBIOTIC; GLYCYRRHIZA; INTERGENIC SPACERS; MESORHIZOBIUM; PORTUGAL; SYMBIOSIS; SYMBIOTICS;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NITROGEN; RNA;

COEVOLUTION; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; RHIZOBACTERIUM; RNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPE; CHICKPEA; COEVOLUTION; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLYCYRRHIZA; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM AMORPHAE; MESORHIZOBIUM CICERI; MESORHIZOBIUM MEDITERRANEUM; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPAIN; SYMBIONT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AMORPHA FRUTICOSA; CICER ARIETINUM; GLYCYRRHIZA PALLIDIFLORA; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM AMORPHAE; MESORHIZOBIUM CICERI; MESORHIZOBIUM MEDITERRANEUM; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE;

EID: 33947622749     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2006.02086.x     Document Type: Article

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