Nodulation gene regulation and quorum sensing control density-dependent suppression and restriction of nodulation in the Bradyrhizobium japonicum-soybean symbiosis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3749-3756

  Jitacksorn, Siriluck ^a,b   Sadowsky, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Soil Microbiology Research Group   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; GENE REGULATIONS; GLYCINE MAX (SOY BEAN); HIGH-DENSITY; NODULATION; PLANT GENOTYPES; QUORUM SENSING (QS); WILD-TYPE (WT);

NITROGEN FIXATION;

BRADYOXETIN; SIDEROPHORE;

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; INHIBITION; MUTATION; NODULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SOYBEAN; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENSITY; FUSION GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; INOCULATION; LACZ GENE; NODD1 GENE; NODD2 GENE; NODULATION; NODW GENE; NODY GENE; NOLA GENE; NONHUMAN; NWSD GENE; PLANT ROOT; POPULATION DENSITY; QUORUM SENSING; SOYBEAN; SUPERNATANT; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; ETHERS, CYCLIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; IMINES; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT ROOTS; QUORUM SENSING; SOYBEANS; SYMBIOSIS;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 45749097888     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02939-07     Document Type: Article

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