Absence of symbiotic leghemoglobins alters bacteroid and plant cell differentiation during development of lotus japonicus root nodules

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 800-808

  Ott, Thomas ^a,e   Sullivan, Johan ^b   James, Euan K ^c   Flemetakis, Emmanouil ^d   Günther, Catrin ^a,g   Gibon, Yves ^a   Ronson, Clive ^b   Udvardi, Michael ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^g THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LEGHEMOGLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LOTUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOBIUM; RNA INTERFERENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LEGHEMOGLOBIN; LOTUS; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXYGEN; RHIZOBIUM; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; ROOT NODULES, PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 67649472462     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-22-7-0800     Document Type: Article

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