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Rhizobium leguminosarum is the symbiont of lentils in the Middle East and Europe but not in Bangladesh.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Jan 2014
Harun-or Rashid M, Gonzalez Javier, Young J Peter W, Wink Michael
Abstract excerpt
Lentil is the oldest of the crops that have been domesticated in the Fertile Crescent and spread to other regions during the Bronze Age, making it an ideal model to study the evolution of rhizobia associated with crop legumes. Housekeeping and nodulation genes of lentil-nodulating rhizobia from the region where lentil originated (Turkey and Syria) and regions to which lentil was introduced later (Germany and...
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