Genes conserved for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis identified through phylogenomics

Nature Plants

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Bravo, Armando ^a   York, Thomas ^a   Pumplin, Nathan ^a,b   Mueller, Lukas A ^a   Harrison, Maria J ^a  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT PROTEIN;

BARREL MEDIC; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION; MYCORRHIZA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

GENOMICS; MEDICAGO TRUNCATULA; MUTATION; MYCORRHIZAE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84964842595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2015.208     Document Type: Article

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