Nitrogen fixation in a landrace of maize is supported by a mucilage-associated diazotrophic microbiota

PLoS Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2018, Pages

  Van Deynze, Allen ^a   Zamora, Pablo ^a   Delaux, Pierre Marc ^b   Heitmann, Cristobal ^a   Jayaraman, Dhileepkumar ^b   Rajasekar, Shanmugam ^b   Graham, Danielle ^b   Maeda, Junko ^b   Gibson, Donald ^a   Schwartz, Kevin D ^a   Berry, Alison M ^a   Bhatnagar, Srijak ^a   Jospin, Guillaume ^a   Darling, Aaron ^a   Jeannotte, Richard ^a   Lopez, Javier ^c   Weimer, Bart C ^a   Eisen, Jonathan A ^a   Shapiro, Howard Yana ^a,d   Ané, Jean Michel ^b   Bennett, Alan B ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Instituto Tecnologico de Oaxaca   (Mexico)

^d MARS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; NITROGEN 15; NITROGENASE; NITROGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

AERIAL PLANT PART; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAZOTROPH; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENETIC CODE; LANDRACE; MAIZE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOME; MICROFLORA; MORPHOLOGY; MUCILAGE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OAXACA (STATE); PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHOOT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MEXICO; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SOIL;

MEXICO; MICROBIOTA; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT MUCILAGE; PLANT ROOTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85053258179     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006352     Document Type: Article

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