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Identification of symbiotically defective mutants of Lotus japonicus affected in infection thread growth.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Dec 2006
Lombardo Fabien, Heckmann Anne B, Miwa Hiroki, Perry Jillian A, Yano Koji, Hayashi Makoto, Parniske Martin, Wang Trevor L, Downie J Allan
Abstract excerpt
During the symbiotic interaction between legumes and rhizobia, the host cell plasma membrane and associated plant cell wall invaginate to form a tunnel-like infection thread, a structure in which bacteria divide to reach the plant root cortex. We isolated four Lotus japonicus mutants that make infection pockets in root hairs but form very few infection threads after inoculation with Mesorhizobium loti. The few...
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