Evidence of horizontal transfer of symbiotic genes from a Bradyrhizobium japonicum inoculant strain to indigenous diazotrophs Sinorhizobium (Ensifer) fredii and Bradyrhizobium elkanii in a Brazilian savannah soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2635-2643

  Barcellos, Fernando Gomes ^b   Menna, Pâmela ^b   Batista, Jesiane Stefânia Da Silva ^b   Hungria, Mariangela ^a  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; PATHOGENS; POLYMORPHISM;

EXOTIC HOST LEGUME; FREDII STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY;

GENE TRANSFER;

RIBOSOME RNA;

ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SAVANNA; SOYBEAN; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; BRAZIL; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NIFH GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODA GENE; NODC GENE; NODULATION; NODY GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SAVANNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SOYBEAN; SYMBIOSIS;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRAZIL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOYBEANS; SYMBIOSIS;

BRAZIL; CERRADO; SOUTH AMERICA;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII;

EID: 34247619452     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01823-06     Document Type: Article

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