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Role of polyhydroxybutyrate and glycogen as carbon storage compounds in pea and bean bacteroids.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jan 2005
Lodwig E M, Leonard M, Marroqui S, Wheeler T R, Findlay K, Downie J A, Poole P S
Abstract excerpt
Rhizobium leguminosarum synthesizes polyhydroxybutyrate and glycogen as its main carbon storage compounds. To examine the role of these compounds in bacteroid development and in symbiotic efficiency, single and double mutants of R. leguminosarum bv. viciae were made which lack polyhydroxybutyrate synthase (phaC), glycogen synthase (glgA), or both. For comparison, a single phaC mutant also was isolated in a...
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