A novel RNA-binding peptide regulates the establishment of the Medicago truncatula-Sinorhizobium meliloti nitrogen-fixing symbiosis

Plant Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-38

  Laporte, Philippe ^a,d   Satiat Jeunemaître, Béatrice ^a   Velasco, Isabel ^b   Csorba, Tibor ^c   Van De Velde, Willem ^a   Campalans, Anna ^a,e   Burgyan, Joszef ^c,f   Arevalo Rodriguez, Miguel ^a   Crespi, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DU VÉGÉTAL   (France)

^b Biomedal SL   (Spain)

^c BAY ZOLTÁN NONPROFIT LTD FOR APPLIED RESEARCH   (Hungary)

^d LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^f INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANT PROTECTION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell to cell communication; Functional symbiosome; Medicago truncatula; RNA binding protein; Secreted peptide

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; GENES; NITROGEN; PEPTIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

CELL-TO-CELL COMMUNICATION; FUNCTIONAL SYMBIOSOME; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN; SECRETED PEPTIDES;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FABACEAE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 77951835950     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.04121.x     Document Type: Article

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