The RPG gene of Medicago truncatula controls Rhizobium-directed polar growth during infection

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 9817-9822

  Arrighi, Jean François ^a,c   Godfroy, Olivier ^a   De Billy, Françoise ^a   Saurat, Olivier ^a   Jauneau, Alain ^b   Gough, Clare ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Coiled coil; Genetics; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BARREL MEDIC; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; RHIZOBIUM; ROOT HAIR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 47749133444     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710273105     Document Type: Article

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