Exopolysaccharide production is required for biofilm formation and plant colonization by the nitrogen-fixing endophyte Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1448-1458

  Meneses, Carlos H S G ^a,b   Rouws, Luc F M ^b   Simões Araújo, Jean L ^b   Vidal, Marcia S ^b   Baldani, José I ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOFILM; ENDOPHYTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GLUCONACETOBACTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYDROPONICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RICE; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS;

BIOFILMS; ENDOPHYTES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GLUCONACETOBACTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYDROPONICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT ROOTS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLUCONACETOBACTER; GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS;

EID: 81255211106     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-05-11-0127     Document Type: Article

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