Article
Identification and isolation of genes involved in poly(beta-hydroxybutyrate) biosynthesis in Azospirillum brasilense and characterization of a phbC mutant.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jun 2002
Kadouri Daniel, Burdman Saul, Jurkevitch Edouard, Okon Yaacov
Abstract excerpt
Like many other prokaryotes, rhizobacteria of the genus Azospirillum produce high levels of poly(beta-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) under suboptimal growth conditions. Utilization of PHB by bacteria under stress has been proposed as a mechanism that favors their compatible establishment in competitive environments, thus showing great potential for the improvement of bacterial inoculants for plants and soils. The three...
Topics
- Acyltransferases
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Azospirillum brasilense
- Bacterial Adhesion
- Blotting, Southern
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genes, Bacterial
- Hydroxybutyrates
- Molecular Sequence Data