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Role of trehalose transport and utilization in Sinorhizobium meliloti--alfalfa interactions.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Jul 2005
Jensen John Beck, Ampomah Osei Yaw, Darrah Richard, Peters N Kent, Bhuvaneswari T V
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Genes thuA and thuB in Sinorhizobium meliloti Rm1021 code for a major pathway for trehalose catabolism and are induced by trehalose but not by related structurally similar disaccharides like sucrose or maltose. S. meliloti strains mutated in either of these two genes were severely impaired in the...
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