Cultural conditions required for the induction of an adaptive acid-tolerance response (ATR) in Sinorhizobium meliloti and the question as to whether or not the ATR helps rhizobia improve their symbiosis with alfalfa at low pH

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 302, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-130

  Draghi, Walter O ^a   Del Papa, María Florencia ^a   Pistorio, Mariano ^a   Lozano, Mauricio ^a   De Los Ángeles Giusti, María ^a   Torres Tejerizo, Gonzalo A ^a   Jofré, Edgardo ^b   Boiardi, José Luis ^c   Lagares, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^c Universidad Nacional de La Plata   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Acidity; ATR; Competitiveness; Nodulation; Rhizobia

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ACIDITY; AGRICULTURE; ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTINUOUS CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEDICAGO; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ACIDS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MELILOTUS; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 74049109747     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01846.x     Document Type: Article

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