Gigova L, Petrova N, Dimova S, Staneva D
Academician M Popov Institute of Plant Physiology, Bulgarian Academy ofSciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.
Folia Microbiol (Praha). 2007;52(4):447-8. doi: 10.1007/BF02932102.
A novel finding that genomic restriction fragments of symbiotic nitrogen fixer S. meliloti hybridized with nifM gene probe of the free-living diazotroph Klebsiella pneumoniae is reported. When SmaI endonuclease was used to digest S. meliloti DNA, a unique hybridizing band was obtained.