A comparative transcriptome analysis of Rhizobium etli bacteroids: Specific gene expression during symbiotic nongrowth

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1553-1561

  Vercruysse, Maarten ^a,b   Fauvart, Maarten ^a   Beullens, Serge ^a   Braeken, Kristien ^a   Cloots, Lore ^a   Engelen, Kristof ^a   Marchal, Kathleen ^a   Michiels, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHASEOLUS; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SYMBIOSIS; UPREGULATION;

DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHASEOLUS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM ETLI;

EID: 81255197900     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-05-11-0140     Document Type: Article

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