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Rhizobium meliloti lipopolysaccharide and exopolysaccharide can have the same function in the plant-bacterium interaction.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 1990
Putnoky P, Petrovics G, Kereszt A, Grosskopf E, Ha D T, Bánfalvi Z, Kondorosi A
Abstract excerpt
A fix region of Rhizobium meliloti 41 involved both in symbiotic nodule development and in the adsorption of bacteriophage 16-3 was delimited by directed Tn5 mutagenesis. Mutations in this DNA region were assigned to four complementation units and were mapped close to the pyr-2 and pyr-29 chromosomal markers. Phage inactivation studies with bacterial cell envelope preparations and crude lipopolysaccharides (LPS)...
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