Cowpea and peanut in southern Africa are nodulated by diverse Bradyrhizobium strains harboring nodulation genes that belong to the large pantropical clade common in Africa

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1131-1144

  Steenkamp, Emma T ^a   Stepkowski, Tomasz ^b   Przymusiak, Anna ^b   Botha, Wilhelm J ^c   Law, Ian J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^c PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Bradyrhizobium; glnII; Horizontal gene transfer; nodA; noeE; recA; rrs; Vigna unguiculata

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; GENE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LEGUME; PEANUT; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; FABACEAE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, PLANT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM CANARIENSE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM LIAONINGENSE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM YUANMINGENSE; RHIZOBIACEAE; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 50549098293     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.032     Document Type: Article

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