Complexity of phenotypes and symbiotic behaviour of Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii exopolysaccharide mutants

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 331-336

  Wielbo, Jerzy ^a   Mazur, Andrzej ^a   Król, Jarosław ^a   Marczak, Małgorzata ^a   Kutkowska, Jolanta ^a   Skorupska, Anna ^a  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Detergent sensitivity; Exopolysaccharide mutants; Nodule invasion

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE MUTATION; GUSA GENE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSSD GENE; PSSO GENE; PSSP GENE; PSST GENE; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEDICAGO; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM;

EID: 6344256844     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-004-0723-z     Document Type: Article

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