Chickpea rhizobia symbiosis genes are highly conserved across multiple Mesorhizobium species

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 391-400

  Laranjo, Marta ^a   Alexandre, Ana ^a   Rivas, Raúl ^b   Velázquez, Encarna ^b   Young, J Peter W ^c   Oliveira, Solange ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Lateral gene transfer; nifH; nodC; Rhizobia; Symbiosis genes

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBACTERIUM; RNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; CHICKPEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MESORHIZOBIUM; NIFH GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODC GENE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIACEAE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CICER; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

CICER ARIETINUM; MESORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 53949092000     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00584.x     Document Type: Article

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