Engineered ACC deaminase-expressing free-living cells of Mesorhizobium loti show increased nodulation efficiency and competitiveness on Lotus spp.

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 331-338

  Conforte, Valeria P ^a   Echeverria, Mariela ^a,b   Sánchez, Cintia ^a   Ugalde, Rodolfo A ^a   Menéndez, Ana B ^a,b   Lepek, Viviana C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

ACC deaminase; Competitiveness; Ethylene; Lotus; Mesorhizobium loti

Indexed keywords

1 AMINOCYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID; 1 AMINOCYCLOPROPANECARBOXYLIC ACID DEAMINASE; DEAMINASE; ETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 1-AMINOCYCLOPROPANE-1-CARBOXYLATE DEAMINASE; LYASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FORAGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LEGUME; LOTUS; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIZOBIACEAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL GENE; SYMBIOSIS; WILD TYPE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT;

LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; LOTUS TENUIS; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CARBON-CARBON LYASES; LOTUS; PLANT ROOTS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 77958592180     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.56.331     Document Type: Article

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