Signal molecules and cell-surface components involved in early stages of the legume-rhizobium interactions

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 94-113

  Janczarek, Monika ^a   Rachwał, Kamila ^a   Marzec, Anna ^a   Grzadziel, Jarosław ^a   Palusińska Szysz, Marta ^a  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Flavonoids; Legume rhizobium symbiosis; Nitrogen fixation; Nod factor; Nodulation; Signaling; Surface polysaccharides

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907700863     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2014.08.010     Document Type: Review

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