Different Mesorhizobium species sharing the same symbiotic genes nodulate the shrub legume Anagyris latifolia

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 615-623

  Donate Correa, Javier ^a   León Barrios, Milagros ^a   Hernández, Mariano ^a   Pérez Galdona, Ricardo ^a   del Arco Aguilar, Marcelino ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anagyris latifolia; Canary Islands; glnII gene; Legume; Mesorhizobium; Nodulation; Nodulation genes; Phylogeny; Ribosomal genes

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LEGUME; MESORHIZOBIUM; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHRUB; SYMBIOSIS;

ANAGYRIS; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE;

EID: 35748964407     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: 16180984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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