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Initiation of a legume nodule with an indeterminate meristem involves proliferating host cells that harbour infection threads.
The New phytologist - 1 Mar 2009
Voroshilova Vera A, Demchenko Kirill N, Brewin Nicholas J, Borisov Alexey Y, Tikhonovich Igor A
Abstract excerpt
A comparative analysis of nodule morphogenesis was carried out for three symbiotically defective pea (Pisum sativum) mutants that show abnormalities in nodule development.In the wild-type lines, resumption of cell proliferation in the pericycle and inner cortex results in the development of a nodule primordium, within which are found proliferating cells that harbour infection threads. However, this class of cell...
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