Loss of the nodule-specific cysteine rich peptide, NCR169, abolishes symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the Medicago truncatula dnf7 mutant

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 49, 2015, Pages 15232-15237

  Horvath, Beatrix ^a   Domonkos, Agota ^a   Kereszt, Attila ^b   Szucs, Attila ^b   Abraham, Edit ^b   Ayaydin, Ferhan ^b   Boka, Károly ^c   Chen, Yuhui ^d   Chen, Rujin ^d   Murray, Jeremy D ^d,e   Udvardi, Michael K ^d   Kondorosi, Eva ^b   Kalo, Peter ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^e JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteroid differentiation; Ineffective nodules; Senescence; Sinorhizobium; Symbiotic host peptides

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CYSTEINE; NCR169 PEPTIDE; NITROGEN; NODULIN; PEPTIDE; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLANT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BARREL MEDIC; CELL AGING; DELETION MUTANT; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CYSTEINE; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MUTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT PROTEINS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84949257408     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1500777112     Document Type: Article

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