A plant arabinogalactan-like glycoprotein promotes a novel type of polar surface attachment by Rhizobium leguminosarum

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 250-258

  Xie, Fang ^a   Williams, Alan ^a,b   Edwards, Anne ^a   Downie, J Allan ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOGALACTAN; CARBOHYDRATE; GALACTAN; GLASS; GLYCOPROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PEA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT EXUDATE; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; WHEAT;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CARBOHYDRATES; FABACEAE; GALACTANS; GLASS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEAS; PLANT EXUDATES; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; TRITICUM;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84856193983     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-08-11-0211     Document Type: Article

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