Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology
  • Year: 1999
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 2

Evidence for Strain-specific Agglutination of Rhizobium by a 45 kD Protein from Chickpea

  • Author:
  • M S Shivayogi, Uma S Podder
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 121 to 122

*Corresponding author

Abstract

A 45 kD protein isolated from chickpea seeds was shown to agglutinate Rhizobium specific to chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) but not the Rhizobium which nodulates peanut and cowpea.

Keywords

agglutination, Rhizobium, symbiosis, Cicer arietinum L, specificity.