Iron: An essential micronutrient for the legume-rhizobium symbiosis

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Brear, Ella M ^a   Day, David A ^b   Smith, Penelope M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteroid; Iron; Legume rhizobium symbiosis; Nitrogen fixation; Nodule; Symbiosome; Symbiosome membrane

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899423828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00359     Document Type: Article

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