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Symbiotic host-specificity of Rhizobium meliloti is determined by a sulphated and acylated glucosamine oligosaccharide signal.
Nature - 19 Apr 1990
Lerouge P, Roche P, Faucher C, Maillet F, Truchet G, Promé J C, Dénarié J
Abstract excerpt
Rhizobia are symbiotic bacteria that elicit the formation on leguminous plants of specialized organs, root nodules, in which they fix nitrogen. In various Rhizobium species, such as R. leguminosarum and R. meliloti, common and host-specific nodulation (nod) genes have been identified which determine infection and nodulation of specific hosts. Common nodABC genes as well as host-specific nodH and nodQ genes were...
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