The Rhizobiaceae Book

	Preface
	Color Plates
1	Molecular Evolutionary Systematics of the Rhizobiaceae	1
2	General Genetic Knowledge	25
3	Outer Membrane Proteins	45
4	Phospholipids and Alternative Membrane Lipids	55
5	Cell-surface [beta]-glucans	81
6	Production of Exopolysaccharides	97
7	Lipopolysaccharides and K-Antigens: Their Structures, Biosynthesis and Functions	119
8	Soil Biology of the Rhizobiaceae	155
9	Opines and Opine-Like Molecules Involved in Plant-Rhizobiaceae Interactions	173
10	Conjugal Plasmids and Their Transfer	199
11	Attachment of Rhizobiaceae to Plant Cells	235
12	The Agrobacterium Oncogenes	251
13	Organization and Regulation of Expression of the Agrobacterium Virulence Genes	267
14	Function of the Ti-Plasmid Vir Proteins: T-Complex Formation and Transfer to the Plant Cell	281
15	Role of Virulence Proteins of Agrobacterium in the Plant	303
16	Determinants of Host Specificity of Agrobacterium and their Function	321
17	The Use of Agrobacterium for Plant Genetic Engineering	339
18	Diversity of Root Nodulation and Rhizobial Infection Processes	347
19	Genetic Organization and Transcriptional Regulation of Rhizobial Nodulation Genes	361
20	Functions of Rhizobial Nodulation Genes	387
21	Responses of the Plant to Nod Factors	403
22	Tissue and Cell Invasion by Rhizobium: The Structure and Development of Infection Threads and Symbiosomes	417
23	A Survey of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation by Rhizobia	431
24	Carbon and Nitrogen Metabolism in Rhizobia	461
25	Evolutionary Aspects of Symbiotic Adaptations, Rhizobium's Contribution to Evolution by Association	487
26	Legume Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Agronomic Aspects	509
	Contributors	531
	Abbreviations	535
	Subject Index	539