Ethylene in the Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis

  • Jeroen Den Herder
  • Sofie Goormachtig
  • Marcelle Holsters
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Root Hair Exogenous Ethylene Indeterminate Nodule Nodule Initiation Nodule Primordia 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jeroen Den Herder
    • 1
  • Sofie Goormachtig
    • 2
  • Marcelle Holsters
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders InteruniversityGhent UniversityGentBelgium
  2. 2.Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders InteruniversityGhent UniversityGentBelgium
  3. 3.Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders InteruniversityGhent UniversityGentBelgium

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