South African Papilionoid Legumes Are Nodulated by Diverse Burkholderia with Unique Nodulation and Nitrogen-Fixation Loci

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Beukes, Chrizelle W ^a   Venter, Stephanus N ^a   Law, Ian J ^b   Phalane, Francina L ^b   Steenkamp, Emma T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LEGUME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NIFH GENE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODA GENE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RECA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BURKHOLDERIA; FABACEAE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC LOCI; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; RHIZOBIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84880059592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068406     Document Type: Article

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