A Functional Bacterium-to-Plant DNA Transfer Machinery of Rhizobium etli

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Lacroix, Benoît ^a   Citovsky, Vitaly ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MUTATION; REPORTER GENE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PLANT DNA; T-DNA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PLANT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, REPORTER; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84962428301     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005502     Document Type: Article

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