Experimental evolution of a plant pathogen into a legume symbiont

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Marchetti, Marta ^a   Capela, Delphine ^a   Glew, Michelle ^a,e   Cruveiller, Stéphane ^b   Chane Woon Ming, Béatrice ^b   Gris, Carine ^a   Timmers, Ton ^a   Poinsot, Véréna ^c   Gilbert, Luz B ^a   Heeb, Philipp ^d   Médigue, Claudine ^b   Batut, Jacques ^a   Masson Boivin, Catherine ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^b Genoscope   (France)

^c Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUPRIAVIDUS; CUPRIAVIDUS TAIWANENSIS; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; LEGUME; MIMOSA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; RHIZOBIUM; STRUCTURAL GENE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM; ADAPTATION; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CUPRIAVIDUS TAIWANENSIS; MIMOSA; RALSTONIA SOLANACEARUM; RHIZOBIUM;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CHIMERA; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; FABACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 75749144287     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000280     Document Type: Article

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