Expression and functional roles of Bradyrhizobium japonicum genes involved in the utilization of inorganic and organic sulfur compounds in free-living and symbiotic conditions

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 451-457

  Sugawara, Masayuki ^a   Shah, Gopit R ^b   Sadowsky, Michael J ^a   Paliy, Oleg ^c   Speck, Justin ^b   Vail, Andrew W ^a   Gyaneshwar, Prasad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE; SULFATASE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; OPERON; SOYBEAN; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; OPERON; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; SOYBEANS; SULFATASES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 79952586096     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-08-10-0184     Document Type: Article

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