Metabolic capacity of Sinorhizobium (Ensifer) meliloti strains as determined by phenotype microarray analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 5396-5404

  Biondi, Emanuele G ^a   Tatti, Enrico ^a   Comparini, Diego ^a   Giuntini, Elisa ^b   Mocali, Stefano ^c   Giovannetti, Luciana ^a   Bazzicalupo, Marco ^a   Mengoni, Alessio ^a   Viti, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c Centro per la Ricerca e la sperimentazione in Agricoltura   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM SULFATE; ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN; CARBON SOURCE; CELL MORPHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATIONS; ENSIFER; EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS; GENOMIC STUDIES; GROWTH CONDITIONS; HIGH-CONTENT; IN-PLANTS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; METABOLIC CAPABILITIES; METABOLIC CAPACITIES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NATURAL POPULATION; OSMOLYTES; PHENOTYPIC DIFFERENCES; PHENOTYPIC DIVERSITY; REFERENCE STRAINS; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SODIUM NITRITE; SOIL BACTERIUM; SULFUR SOURCE;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CELL MEMBRANES; METABOLISM; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYMORPHISM; SODIUM; SODIUM SULFATE; SULFUR;

STRAIN;

AMMONIUM SULFATE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SODIUM NITRITE; SULFUR;

ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIATION; LEGUME; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PHENOTYPE; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TOLERANCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BARREL MEDIC; CARBON SOURCE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; METABOLIC CAPACITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PH; PHENOTYPE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 68549122764     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00196-09     Document Type: Article

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