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Nitrogen fixation mutants of Medicago truncatula fail to support plant and bacterial symbiotic gene expression.
Plant physiology - 1 Feb 2006
Starker Colby G, Parra-Colmenares Adriana L, Smith Lucinda, Mitra Raka M, Long Sharon R
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The Rhizobium-legume symbiosis culminates in the exchange of nutrients in the root nodule. Bacteria within the nodule reduce molecular nitrogen for plant use and plants provide bacteria with carbon-containing compounds. Following the initial signaling events that lead to plant infection, little is known about the plant requirements for establishment and maintenance of the symbiosis. We screened 44,000 M2 plants...
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