What Determines the Efficiency of N2-Fixing Rhizobium-Legume Symbioses?

Advances in Microbial Physiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 2012, Pages 325-389

  Terpolilli, Jason J ^a   Hood, Graham A ^a   Poole, Philip S ^a  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteroid; Efficiency; Endoreduplication; Fix genes; Gluconeogenesis; Glycogen; Legume; NifA; Nitrogen fixation; Nitrogenase; Oxygen sensing; Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB); Rhizobium; Rrhizobia; Sugar metabolism; Symbiosome; Tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON; CITRIC ACID; HOMOCITRATE; NIFA PROTEIN; NITRITE; OXIDE; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; AZORHIZOBIUM CAULINODANS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CARBON METABOLISM; ENDOREDUPLICATION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HOST; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SENSING; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; MEDICAGO; MEDICAGO SATIVA; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIUM; VICIA;

EID: 84861438378     PISSN: 00652911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-398264-3.00005-X     Document Type: Chapter

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