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R gene-controlled host specificity in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Oct 2010
Yang Shengming, Tang Fang, Gao Muqiang, Krishnan Hari B, Zhu Hongyan
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Leguminous plants can enter into root nodule symbioses with nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria known as rhizobia. An intriguing but still poorly understood property of the symbiosis is its host specificity, which is controlled at multiple levels involving both rhizobial and host genes. It is widely believed that the host specificity is determined by specific recognition of bacterially derived Nod factors by the...
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