The Response to Nitric Oxide of the Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 748-759

  Meilhoc, Eliane ^a   Cam, Yvan ^a   Skapski, Agnès ^a   Bruand, Claude ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES INTERACTIONS PLANTES MICROORGANISMES LIPM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN FIXATION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

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

EID: 77952689236     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-23-6-0748     Document Type: Article

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