Using luc gene as a reporter to study the activation of Rhizobium meliloti nif/fix genes in thedevelopment of symbiosis,the authors observed that nodule development and nitrogen fixation were inhibitedby both multicop...
R.meliloti nodD3 gene is transcriptionally controlled by two promoters.Gel retardationexperiments show that SyrM and NodD3 are binding to the first promoter region of nodD3,while no proteinfactor is found to bind to t...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and partially by the Biotechnology Career Fellowship of Rockefeller Foundation (for ZHU Jia-bi's work).
When the R. meliloti (Rm) nifA'-lacZ fusion-carrying plasmids were introduced intothe strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, R. trifolii and R. astragalus, β-galactosidaseactivity was demonstrated. However, activity w...