A unipolarly located, cell-surface-associated agglutinin, RapA, belongs to a family of Rhizobium-adhering proteins (Rap) in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii

The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AF265222, AF265223, AF315809 and AF315810.

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