Use of plant colonizing bacteria as chassis for transfer of N2-fixation to cereals

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 32, Issue , 2015, Pages 216-222

  Geddes, Barney A ^a   Ryu, Min Hyung ^b   Mus, Florence ^c   Garcia Costas, Amaya ^c   Peters, John W ^c   Voigt, Christopher A ^b   Poole, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CROPS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CEREAL CROP; ENGINEERING TOOLS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LOGICAL APPROACHES; N2 FIXATION; NEW APPROACHES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; PLANT DNA;

ACCURACY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CEREAL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA SYNTHESIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGENATION; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PROTEGENS; PSEUDOMONAS STUTZERI; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; CROP; GENE LOCUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; EDIBLE GRAIN; GENETIC LOCI; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84921500411     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2015.01.004     Document Type: Review

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