Nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between photosynthetic bacteria and legumes

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 115-130

  Giraud, Eric ^a   Fleischman, Darrell ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerobic photosynthetic bacteria; Aeschynomene; Bacteriophytochrome; Bradyrhizobium; Carotenoid biosynthesis; Methylobacterium; Nitrogen fixation; Photosynthesis gene cluster; Photosynthesis regulation; Stem nodule symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; LOTONONIS; METHYLOBACTERIUM; PHOTOBACTERIA; PHOTORHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 7244247284     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-004-1768-1     Document Type: Article

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