The divided bacterial genome: structure, function, and evolution

GC Dicenzo, TM Finan - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Approximately 10% of bacterial genomes are split between two or more large DNA
fragments, a genome architecture referred to as a multipartite genome. This multipartite …

Exopolysaccharides in plant-bacterial interactions.

JA Leigh, DL Coplin - Annual Review of Microbiology, 1992 - europepmc.org
Rhizobial plant symbionts and bacterial plant pathogens produce exopolysaccharides that
often play essential roles in the plant interaction. Many of these exopolysaccharides are …

Nodulating strains of Rhizobium loti arise through chromosomal symbiotic gene transfer in the environment.

JT Sullivan, HN Patrick, WL Lowther… - Proceedings of the …, 1995 - National Acad Sciences
Rhizobia were isolated from nodules off a stand of Lotus corniculatus established with a
single inoculant strain, ICMP3153, 7 years earlier in an area devoid of naturalized …

Class I. Alphaproteobacteria class. nov.

GM Garrity, JA Bell, T Lilburn - Bergey's manual® of systematic …, 2005 - Springer
Abstract Al. pha. pro. te. o. bac. te′ ri. a. Gr. n. alpha name of first letter of Greek alphabet;
Gr. n. Proteus ocean god able to change shape; Gr. n. bakterion a small rod; ML fem. pl. n …

The complete sequence of the 1,683-kb pSymB megaplasmid from the N2-fixing endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti

TM Finan, S Weidner, K Wong… - Proceedings of the …, 2001 - National Acad Sciences
Analysis of the 1,683,333-nt sequence of the pSymB megaplasmid from the symbiotic N2-
fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti revealed that the replicon has a high gene density …

Biosynthesis of succinoglycan, a symbiotically important exopolysaccharide of Rhizobium meliloti

TL Reuber, GC Walker - Cell, 1993 - cell.com
The 8x0 genes of Rhizobium meliloti are needed for thesynthesisof an acidic
exopoiysaccharide, succinogiycan. We have assigned biosynthetic roles to the products of …

New derivatives of transposon Tn5 suitable for mobilization of replicons, generation of operon fusions and induction of genes in Gram-negative bacteria

R Simon, J Quandt, W Klipp - Gene, 1989 - Elsevier
Three types of new variants of the broad-host-range transposen tn5 are described.(i) Tn5-
mob derivatives with the new selective resistance (R) markers Gm R, Sp R and Tc R …

Rhizobium - the refined parasite of legumes.

MA Djordjevic, DW Gabriel, BG Rolfe - 1987 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Abstract Information is reviewed under various headings, including (1) genetic requirement
for nodulation;(2) isolation and identification of Rhizobium nod genes;(3) the common …

Physical and genetic mapping of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4. 1 genome: presence of two unique circular chromosomes

A Suwanto, S Kaplan - Journal of Bacteriology, 1989 - Am Soc Microbiol
A macrorestriction map representing the complete physical map of the Rhodobacter
sphaeroides 2.4. 1 chromosomes has been constructed by ordering the chromosomal DNA …

Two plasmids other than the nodulation plasmid are necessary for formation of nitrogen‐fixing nodules by Rhizobium leguminosarum

MF Hynes, NF McGregor - Molecular microbiology, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
A system which allows direct selection for curing of plasmids in Gram‐negative bacteria was
used to generate derivatives of Rhizobium leguminosarum VF39 cured of each of six …