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Abstract
Populations of symbiotic Rhizobium meliloti extracted from alfalfa nodules were shown by flow microfluorometry to contain a significant number of bacteroids with higher nucleic acid content than the free-living rhizobia. Bacteroids with lower nucleic acid content than the free-living bacteria were not detected in significant quantities in these populations. These results indicate that the incapability of bacteroids to reestablish growth in nutrient media may not be caused by a decrease in nucleic acid content of the symbiotic rhizobia.Entities:
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Year: 1977 PMID: 838682 PMCID: PMC235060 DOI: 10.1128/jb.129.2.1156-1158.1977
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490