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Shaping bacterial symbiosis with legumes by experimental evolution.
Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI - 1 Sept 2014
Marchetti Marta, Jauneau Alain, Capela Delphine, Remigi Philippe, Gris Carine, Batut Jacques, Masson-Boivin Catherine
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Nitrogen-fixing symbionts of legumes have appeared after the emergence of legumes on earth, approximately 70 to 130 million years ago. Since then, symbiotic proficiency has spread to distant genera of α- and β-proteobacteria, via horizontal transfer of essential symbiotic genes and subsequent recipient genome remodeling under plant selection pressure. To tentatively replay rhizobium evolution in laboratory...
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