Bacteroid development in legume nodules: Evolution of mutual benefit or of sacrificial victims?

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1300-1309

  Kereszt, Attila ^a,b   Mergaert, Peter ^c   Kondorosi, Eva ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; FABACEAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FABACEAE; NITROGEN FIXATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80054741756     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-06-11-0152     Document Type: Review

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