Stable low molecular weight RNA profiling showed variations within Sinorhizobium meliloti and Sinorhizobium medicae nodulating different legumes from the alfalfa cross-inoculation group

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-281

  Del Villar, María ^a   Rivas, Raúl ^a,b   Peix, Alvaro ^c   Mateos, Pedro F ^a   Martínez Molina, Eustoquio ^a   Van Berkum, Peter ^d   Willems, Anne ^b   Velázquez, Encarna ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e USAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

LMW RNA; Medicago; Melilotus; Sinorhizobium; Trigonella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; PROTEIN ATPD; PROTEIN RRS; RECA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FENUGREEK; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MEDICAGO; MELILOTUS; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO LUPULINA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEDICAGO SPHAEROCARPA; MELILOTUS; MELILOTUS ALBA; MELILOTUS OFFICINALIS; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRIGONELLA; TRIGONELLA FOENUM-GRAECUM;

EID: 42449106423     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01139.x     Document Type: Article

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