Increased production of the exopolysaccharide succinoglycan enhances Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021 symbiosis with the host plant Medicago truncatula

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 4322-4331

  Jones, Kathryn M ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE SUCCINOGLYCAN; EXOY PROTEIN; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; SUCCINOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BARREL MEDIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI 1021;

EID: 84866309710     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00751-12     Document Type: Article

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