A novel exopolysaccharide can function in place of the Calcofluor-binding exopolysaccharide in nodulation of alfalfa by Rhizobium meliloti

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1972 • 28,260 citations

Construction of a broad host range cosmid cloning vector and its use in the genetic analysis of Rhizobium mutants

1982 • 857 citations

Interposon mutagenesis of soil and water bacteria: a family of DNA fragments designed for in vitro insertional mutagenesis of Gram-negative bacteria

1987 • 700 citations

A general method for site-directed mutagenesis in prokaryotes

1981 • 697 citations

Improvement in Anthrone Method for Determination of Carbohydrates

1952 • 660 citations

Second symbiotic megaplasmid in Rhizobium meliloti carrying exopolysaccharide and thiamine synthesis genes

1986 • 608 citations

High frequency mobilization of gram-negative bacterial replicons by the in vitro constructed Tn5-Mob transposon

1984 • 459 citations

A Tn3 lacZ transposon for the random generation of beta-galactosidase gene fusions: application to the analysis of gene expression in Agrobacterium.

1985 • 421 citations

Several “pathogenesis-related” proteins in potato are 1,3-β-glucanases and chitinases

1988 • 311 citations

General transduction in Rhizobium meliloti

1984 • 271 citations

Rhizobium meliloti mutants that fail to succinylate their Calcofluor-binding exopolysaccharide are defective in nodule invasion

1987 • 228 citations

Signal exchange in plant-microbe interactions

1986 • 200 citations

Rhizobium meliloti mutants that overproduce the R. meliloti acidic calcofluor-binding exopolysaccharide

1988 • 174 citations

Genetic analysis of a cluster of genes required for synthesis of the calcofluor-binding exopolysaccharide of Rhizobium meliloti

1988 • 163 citations

Structural elucidation, using h.p.l.c.-m.s. and g.l.c.-m.s., of the acidic polysaccharide secreted by rhizobium meliloti strain 1021

1981 • 160 citations

Nitrogen fixation ability of exopolysaccharide synthesis mutants of Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234 and Rhizobium trifolii is restored by the addition of homologous exopolysaccharides

1987 • 159 citations

A mutation that blocks exopolysaccharide synthesis prevents nodulation of peas by Rhizobium leguminosarum but not of beans by R. phaseoli and is corrected by cloned DNA from Rhizobium or the phytopathogen Xanthomonas

1986 • 137 citations

Ultrastructural analysis of ineffective alfalfa nodules formed by nif::Tn5 mutants of Rhizobium meliloti

1983 • 126 citations

Signal exchange in plant-microbe interactions.

1986 • 121 citations

Symbiotic loci of Rhizobium meliloti identified by random TnphoA mutagenesis

1988 • 116 citations

Characterization of polysaccharides of Rhizobium meliloti exo mutants that form ineffective nodules

1988 • 116 citations

Two classes of Rhizobium meliloti infection mutants differ in exopolysaccharide production and in coinoculation properties with nodulation mutants

1988 • 115 citations

Symbiotic nitrogen fixation: molecular cloning of Rhizobium genes involved in exopolysaccharide synthesis and effective nodulation.

1982 • 115 citations

Alteration of the Effective Nodulation Properties of a Fast-growing Broad Host Range Rhizobium due to Changes in Exopolysaccharide Synthesis

1985 • 105 citations

Genetic manipulations in Rhizobium meliloti utilizing two new transposon Tn5 derivatives

1986 • 93 citations

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1986 • 49 citations

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1998 • 46 citations

Nodulation of legumes by Rhizobium: The recognized root?

1986 • 45 citations

All nod genes of Rhizobium meliloti are involved in alfalfa nodulation by exo mutants

1988 • 20 citations