Construction of a Cloning Vector Based upon a Rhizobium Plasmid Origin of Replication and its Application to Genetic Engineering of Rhizobium Strains

• Main Author: Jeong, Pyengsoo
• Other Authors: Benjamin, Robert C.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: University of North Texas 1992
• Subjects: cloning; bacteria; genetic engineering; Genetic vectors.; Rhizobium.; Genetic engineering.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278189/

Rhizobia are Gram-negative, rod-shaped, soil bacteria with the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia as symbiont bacteroids within nodules of leguminous plant roots. Here, resident Rhizobium plasmids were studied as possible sources of components for the construction of a cloning vector for Rhizobium species.