Characterization of the mesorhizobium loti MAFF303099 type-three protein secretion system

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 519-528

  Sanchez, Cintia ^a   Iannino, Florencia ^a   Deakin, William J ^b   Ugalde, Rodolfo A ^a   Lepek, Viviana C ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LOTUS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; NODULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECRETION; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LOTUS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

LOTUS GLABER; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 66149084890     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-22-5-0519     Document Type: Article

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