Equilibrium between the "genuine mutualists" and "symbiotic cheaters" in the bacterial population co-evolving with plants in a facultative symbiosis.

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The mathematical model for evolution of the plant-microbe facultative mutualistic interactions based on the partners' symbiotic feedbacks is constructed. Using the example of rhizobia-legume symbiosis, we addressed these feedbacks in terms of the metabolic (C<-->N) exchange resulting in the parallel improvements of the partners' fitness (positive feedbacks). These improvements are correlated to the symbiotic...

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