Engineering Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 for nitrogen fixation and its application to improve plant growth under nitrogen-deficient conditions

Nitrogen is the second most critical factor for crop production after water. In this study, the beneficial rhizobacterium Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 was genetically modified to fix nitrogen using the genes encoding the nitrogenase of Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501 via the X940 cosmid. Pf-5 X940 was able...

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Main Authors: Setten, Lorena, Soto, Gabriela Cinthia, Mozzicafreddo, Matteo, Fox, Ana Romina, Lisi, Christian Daniel, Cuccioloni, Massimiliano, Angeletti, Mauro, Pagano, Elba Maria, Diaz Paleo, Antonio Horacio, Ayub, Nicolás Daniel
Format: Artículo
Language:Inglés
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/1450
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0063666
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063666

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