The frankia alni symbiotic transcriptome

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 593-607

  Alloisio, Nicole ^a,b,c   Queiroux, Clothilde ^a,b,c   Fournier, Pascale ^a,b,c   Pujic, Petar ^a,b,c   Normand, Philippe ^a,b,c   Vallenet, David ^d   Médigue, Claudine ^d   Yamaura, Masatoshi ^e   Kakoi, Kentaro ^e   Kucho, Ken Ichi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c University of Lyon   (France)

^d DIF   (France)

^e KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

ALDER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; FRANKIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PLANT GENE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHIZOBIUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ALNUS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DATABASES, GENETIC; FRANKIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, PLANT; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHIZOBIUM; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALNUS; ALNUS GLUTINOSA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETULACEAE; FRANKIA; FRANKIA ALNI; MYRICACEAE; RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 77950592420     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-23-5-0593     Document Type: Article

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