Genome features of the Endophytic Actinobacterium Micromonospora lupini strain lupac 08: On the process of adaptation to an Endophytic life style? e108522

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Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Trujillo, Martha E ^a   Bacigalupe, Rodrigo ^a   Pujic, Petar ^b   Igarashi, Yasuhiro ^c   Benito, Patricia ^a   Riesco, Raúl ^a   Médigue, Claudine ^d   Normand, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; STARCH; XYLAN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHITINASE; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHYTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOST; IN VITRO STUDY; LUPINUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS; MICROMONOSPORA; MICROMONOSPORA LUPINI; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PLANT TISSUE; SOIL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; LUPIN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

MICROMONOSPORA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE SODIUM; CHITINASE; ENDOPHYTES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LUPINUS; MICROMONOSPORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; STARCH; SYMBIOSIS; XYLANS;

EID: 84907494172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108522     Document Type: Article

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