Identification of mesorhizobium loti genes relevant to symbiosis by using signature-tagged mutants

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 165-171

  Borjigin, Naoganchaolu ^a   Furukawa, Keisuke ^a   Shimoda, Yoshikazu ^b   Tabata, Satoshi ^b   Sato, Shusei ^b   Eda, Shima ^a   Minamisawa, Kiwamu ^a   Mitsui, Hisayuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAZUSA DNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Mesorhizobium loti; Root nodule; Signature tagged mutagenesis; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; LOTUS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; LOTUS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT ROOT NODULATION; RHIZOBIACEAE; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

FABACEAE; LOTUS CORNICULATUS VAR. JAPONICUS; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI;

EID: 79958199272     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13426311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME10213     Document Type: Article

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