Mobilization of a Sym plasmid from a fast-growing cowpea Rhizobium strain.
A large Sym plasmid from a fast-growing cowpea Rhizobium species was made mobilizable by cointegration with plasmid pSUP1011, which carries the oriT region of RP4. This mobilizable Sym plasmid was transferred to a number of Rhizobium strains, in which nodulation and nitrogen fixation functions for symbiosis with plants of the cowpea group were expressed.
D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005838:Genotype; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology; D010957:Plasmids; D012231:Rhizobium / Q000235:genetics*; D013045:Species Specificity