COMPETITION FOR NODULE FORMATION BETWEEN EFFECTIVE AND INEFFECTIVE STRAINS OF RHIZOBIUM-MELILOTI
COMPETITION FOR NODULE FORMATION BETWEEN EFFECTIVE AND INEFFECTIVE STRAINS OF RHIZOBIUM-MELILOTI
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DOI:
10.1016/0038-0717(81)90037-7
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
9.7
通讯作者:
AMARGER, N
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作者:
AMARGER, N
Ineffective mutants of 4 effective strains of R. meliloti were isolated and tested for their ability to compete with effective parents or antibiotic resistant mutants in the formation of nodules on Medicago sativa. In 5 of the 6 cases studied, ineffective mutants were no different to effective strains of the same origin in their competitive ability. A difference in selection for infection by the host plant was observed between equally effective strains as well as between ineffective strains. Except for 1 pair of strains, the more-competitive effective strains (resistant or not to antibiotics) had the same origin as the more-competitive ineffective strains. For such strains the ability to compete with other strains to form nodules was a characteristic of each parent strain. Competitiveness was independent of effectiveness and had been retained during mutation.