Rhizobia with different symbiotic efficiencies nodulate Acaciella angustissima in Mexico, including Sinorhizobium chiapanecum sp. nov. which has common symbiotic genes with Sinorhizobium mexicanum

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-117

  Rincón Rosales, Reiner ^b   Lloret, Lourdes ^a   Ponce, Edith ^b   Martínez Romero, Esperanza ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b Secretaria de Educacion Publica   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acaciella angustissima; Legume symbiosis; N2 fixation; Nodulation; Rhizobial diversity

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LEGUME; NODULATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ACACIELLA ANGUSTISSIMA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; LEGUME; MESORHIZOBIUM PLURIFARIUM; MEXICO; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NIFH GENE; NODA GENE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM GALLICUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SINORHIZOBIUM AMERICANUM; SINORHIZOBIUM CHIAPANECUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEXICANUM; SINORHIZOBIUM TERANGAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ACACIELLA; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; FABACEAE; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM PLURIFARIUM; MIMOSOIDEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM GALLICUM; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM AMERICANUM; SINORHIZOBIUM TERANGAE;

EID: 57449094971     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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