Exopolysaccharide production by nitrogen-fixing bacteria within nodules of Medicago plants exposed to chronic radiation in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-108

  Pawlicki Jullian, Nathalie ^a   Courtois, Bernard ^a   Pillon, Michelle ^a   Lesur, David ^b   Le Flèche Mateos, Anne ^c   Laberche, Jean Claude ^d   Goncharova, Nadia ^e   Courtois, Josiane ^a  

^a IUT Dpt GB   (France)

^b Laboratoire des Glucides UMR CNRS 6219   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d Unité de Biologie des Plantes et Contrôle des Ravageurs EA3900   (France)

^e International Sakharov Environmental University   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Chernobyl exclusion zone; Diversity; Enterobacteriaceae; Exopolysaccharides; Medicago; Nitrogen fixing bacteria

Indexed keywords

EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; FUCOSE; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUCURONIC ACID; MANNOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER LUDWIGII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEDICAGO; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAOULTELLA TERRIGENA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BYELARUS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FUCOSE; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; GLUCURONIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MANNOSE; MEDICAGO; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ENTEROBACTER LUDWIGII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MEDICAGO; RAOULTELLA TERRIGENA; RHIZOBIACEAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 77949918452     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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