Conditional requirement for exopolysaccharide in the Mesorhizobium-Lotus symbiosis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 319-329

  Kelly, Simon J ^a,b   Muszyński, Artur ^c   Kawaharada, Yasuyuki ^b   Hubber, Andree M ^a,d   Sullivan, John T ^a,b   Sandal, Niels ^b   Carlson, Russell W ^c   Stougaard, Jens ^b   Ronson, Clive W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; URONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LOTUS; MESORHIZOBIUM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOT; REPORTER GENE; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; GENOTYPE; LOTUS; MESORHIZOBIUM; MUTAGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; URONIC ACIDS;

EID: 84874066390     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-09-12-0227-R     Document Type: Article

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