Nodulation studies in the model legume Medicago truncatula: Advantages of using the constitutive EF1α promoter and limitations in detecting fluorescent reporter proteins in nodule tissues

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1040-1047

  Auriac, Marie Christine ^a   Timmers, Antonius C J ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

Author keywords

Sinorhizobium meliloti

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; ELONGATION FACTOR 1; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NODULATION; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 34548024164     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-20-9-1040     Document Type: Article

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