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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110
SUBMITTER: Woo-Suk Chang
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-26252 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Applied and environmental microbiology 20110415 11
The rhizobial bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum functions as a nitrogen-fixing symbiont of the soybean plant (Glycine max). Plants are capable of producing an oxidative burst, a rapid proliferation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), as a defense mechanism against pathogenic and symbiotic bacteria. Therefore, B. japonicum must be able to resist such a defense mechanism to initiate nodulation. In this study, paraquat, a known superoxide radical-inducing agent, was used to investigate this response ...[more]