A positive correlation between bacterial autoaggregation and biofilm formation in native Sinorhizobium meliloti isolates from Argentina

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4092-4101

  Sorroche, Fernando G ^a   Spesia, Mariana B ^a   Zorreguieta, Ángeles ^b   Giordano, Walter ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ADHESIVE FORCE; ARGENTINA; BIOFILM FORMATION; CELL-CELL INTERACTION; COMPLEMENTATION; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDES; EXTRACELLULAR; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NITROGEN FIXING BACTERIA; PCR ANALYSIS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; REFERENCE STRAINS; ROOT NODULES; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SURFACE ATTACHMENT; SYNTHETIC PATHWAYS;

BACTERIA; GENES; NITROGEN FIXATION; RNA;

BIOFILMS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

AGGREGATION; ALFALFA; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERIZATION; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ALFALFA; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ARGENTINA; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ARGENTINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO SATIVA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 84864077213     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07826-11     Document Type: Article

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