Transcriptomic analysis of Sinorhizobium meliloti and Medicago truncatula symbiosis using nitrogen fixation-deficient nodules

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 856-868

  Lang, Claus ^a   Long, Sharon R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BARREL MEDIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT ROOTS; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84939152801     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-12-14-0407-R     Document Type: Article

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