The model symbiotic association between Medicago truncatula cv. Jemalong and Rhizobium meliloti strain 2011 leads to N-stressed plants when symbiotic N2 fixation is the main N source for plant growth

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 59, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3509-3522

  Moreau, Delphine ^a   Voisin, Anne Sophie ^a   Salon, Christophe ^a   Munier Jolain, Nathalie ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon; Genetic variability; Growth; Leaf area; Medicago truncatula; Nitrate assimilation; Nitrogen; Phenotyping; Symbiotic dinitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 53749097932     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern203     Document Type: Article

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