Invasive Robinia pseudoacacia in China is nodulated by Mesorhizobium and Sinorhizobium species that share similar nodulation genes with native American symbionts

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 320-328

  Wei, Gehong ^a   Chen, Weimin ^a,b   Zhu, Wenfei ^a   Chen, Chun ^a   Young, J Peter W ^b   Bontemps, Cyril ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lateral gene transfer; Mesorhizobium; Nodulation genes; Phylogeny; Robinia pseudoacacia; Sinorhizobium

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

DECIDUOUS TREE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HOST SPECIFICITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISOLATED POPULATION; LEGUME; NODULATION; PHYLOGENY; RHIZOBACTERIUM; RNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINA; GENE SEQUENCE; MESORHIZOBIUM; NIFH GENE; NODA GENE; NODC GENE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ROBINIA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SYMBIONT;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHINA; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; ROBINIA; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM AMORPHAE; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 65549150967     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00673.x     Document Type: Article

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