Twitching motility is essential for endophytic rice colonization by the N2-fixing endophyte Azoarcus sp. strain BH72

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 526-533

  Böhm, Melanie ^a   Hurek, Thomas ^a   Reinhold Hurek, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PILT PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AZOARCUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AZOARCUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GENE DELETION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT ROOTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AZOARCUS; AZOARCUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PILA; POACEAE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 34247352076     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-5-0526     Document Type: Article

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