Complete genome sequence of the sugarcane nitrogen-fixing endophyte Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus Pal5

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 450-

  Bertalan, Marcelo ^a   Albano, Rodolpho ^b   de Pádua, Vânia ^c   Rouws, Luc ^d   Rojas, Cristian ^a   Hemerly, Adriana ^a   Teixeira, Kátia ^d   Schwab, Stefan ^d   Araujo, Jean ^d   Oliveira, André ^d   França, Leonardo ^a   Magalhães, Viviane ^a   Alquéres, Sylvia ^a   Cardoso, Alexander ^a   Almeida, Wellington ^a   Loureiro, Marcio M ^a   Nogueira, Eduardo ^c,h   Cidade, Daniela ^b   Oliveira, Denise ^b   Simão, Tatiana ^b   Macedo, Jacyara ^b   Valadão, Ana ^b   Dreschsel, Marcela ^d   Freitas, Flávia ^b   Vidal, Marcia ^d   Guedes, Helma ^d   Rodrigues, Elisete ^d   Meneses, Carlos ^d   Brioso, Paulo ^e   Pozzer, Luciana ^e   Figueiredo, Daniel ^e   Montano, Helena ^e   Junior, Jadier ^e   de Souza Filho, Gonçalo ^f   Martin Quintana Flores, Victor ^f   Ferreira, Beatriz ^f   Branco, Alan ^f   Gonzalez, Paula ^b   Guillobel, Heloisa ^b   Lemos, Melissa ^g   Seibel, Luiz ^g   Macedo, José ^g   Alves Ferreira, Marcio ^a   Sachetto Martins, Gilberto ^a   Coelho, Ana ^a   Santos, Eidy ^a   Amaral, Gilda ^a   Neves, Anna ^a   Pacheco, Ana B ^a   Carvalho, Daniela ^a   Lery, Letícia ^a   Bisch, Paulo ^a   Rössle, Shaila C ^a   Ürményi, Turán ^a   Rael Pereira, Alessandra ^b   Silva, Rosane ^a   Rondinelli, Edson ^a   von Krüger, Wanda ^a   Martins, Orlando ^a   Baldani, José I ^d   Ferreira, Paulo C G ^a   more..

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Centro Universitario Estadual da Zona Oeste   (Brazil)

^d EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^e Instituto de Biologia   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO NORTE FLUMINENSE DARCY RIBEIRO   (Brazil)

^g PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENINE; AUXIN; BACTERIOCIN; CARBOHYDRATE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; INDOLEACETIC ACID; NITROGEN; PLANT DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TYROSINE;

ACID TOLERANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; DNA CONTENT; ENDOPHYTE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLUCONACETOBACTER; GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PLASMID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUORUM SENSING; SUGARCANE; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GLUCONACETOBACTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN FIXATION; SACCHARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS;

EID: 70449482476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-450     Document Type: Article

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