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A region of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 causes stable in planta inheritance of plasmids in Rhizobium meliloti cells isolated from alfalfa root nodules.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Nov 1992
Weinstein M, Roberts R C, Helinski D R
Abstract excerpt
We demonstrate for the first time that the broad-host-range stabilization loci from plasmid RK2 cause total retention of plasmids in cells of Rhizobium meliloti during symbiosis with alfalfa. Two derivatives of plasmid RK2, pRK290 and a 7.3-kb mini-RK2 plasmid, were stabilized in R. meliloti cells isolated from root nodules by the insertion of a 3.2-kb DNA fragment or a smaller 0.8-kb DNA fragment derived from...
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