Stable fluorescent and enzymatic tagging of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens to analyze host-plant infection and colonization

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 959-967

  Ledermann, Raphael ^a   Bartsch, Ilka ^a   Remus Emsermann, Mitja N ^a,b   Vorholt, Julia A ^a   Fischer, Hans Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT DNA;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SOYBEAN;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; SOYBEANS;

EID: 84942521101     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-03-15-0054-TA     Document Type: Article

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