Auxotrophy accounts for nodulation defect of most Sinorhizobium meliloti mutants in the branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis pathway

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1232-1241

  Peltzer, Maria De Las Nieves ^a   Roques, Nicolas ^b   Poinsot, Véréna ^c   Aguilar, O Mario ^a   Batut, Jacques ^b   Capela, Delphine ^b  

^a Inst de Biotecnología Y Biología Molecular IBBM   (Argentina)

^b LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^c Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE; NODC PROTEIN, RHIZOBIALES; VALINE;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NODULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MUTATION; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS; VALINE;

MEDICAGO SATIVA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 51949094639     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-21-9-1232     Document Type: Article

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