The nodulation of alfalfa by the acid-tolerant Rhizobium sp. strain LPU83 does not require sulfated forms of lipochitooligosaccharide nodulation signals

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 30-39

  Tejerizo, Gonzalo Torres ^a   Del Papa, María Florencia ^a   Eugenia Soria Diaz, M ^b   Draghi, Walter ^a   Lozano, Mauricio ^a   Giusti, María De Los Ángeles ^a   Manyani, Hamid ^b   Megías, Manuel ^b   Serrano, Antonio Gil ^b   Pühler, Alfred ^c   Niehaus, Karsten ^c   Lagares, Antonio ^a   Pistorio, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; LIPOCHITOOLIGOSACCHARIDE; NOD PROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; SPACER DNA; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BEAN; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOTYPE; LEUCENA LEUCOCEPHALA; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM MONGOLENSE; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SULFATION; SYNTENY; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MEDICAGO SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; RHIZOBIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM MONGOLENSE; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SINORHIZOBIUM MEDICAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 78650078519     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01009-10     Document Type: Article

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