Disruption of the glycine cleavage system enables sinorhizobium fredii USDA257 to form nitrogen-fixing nodules on agronomically improved North American soybean cultivars

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 4185-4193

  Lorio, Julio C ^a   Kim, Won Seok ^a   Krishnan, Ammuhi H ^a   Knshnan, Han B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL FEATURES; DNA SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ENCODING PROTEINS; GALACTOSIDASES; GENETIC LOCUS; GLYCINE CLEAVAGE SYSTEM; GLYCINE MAX; INFECTED CELLS; NITROGEN-FIXING NODULES; NODULATION; NORTH AMERICAN; OPEN READING FRAME; P-PROTEIN; PROMOTER SEQUENCES; SINORHIZOBIUM; SOUTHERN BLOT ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL FUSION; TRANSPOSON MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTAGENESIS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLYCINE CLEAVAGE SYSTEM; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID; ANATOMY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CULTIVAR; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SECRETION; SOYBEAN; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SOYBEAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII; SOYBEANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSFERASES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLYCINE MAX; SINORHIZOBIUM FREDII;

EID: 77954249108     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00437-10     Document Type: Article

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