Genomic organization and evolutionary insights on GRP and NCR genes, two large nodule-specific gene families in Medicago truncatula

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1138-1148

  Alunni, Benoit ^a   Kevei, Zoltan ^a   Redondo Nieto, Miguel ^a,b   Kondorosi, Adam ^a   Mergaert, Peter ^a   Kondorosi, Eva ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NODULATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT CHROMOSOME; SYNTENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SYNTENY;

GLYCINE MAX; LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA;

EID: 34548017391     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-9-1138     Document Type: Article

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