Article
Light availability and rhizobium variation interactively mediate the outcomes of legume-rhizobium symbiosis.
American journal of botany - 1 Feb 2020
Heath Katy D, Podowski Justin C, Heniff Stephanie, Klinger Christie R, Burke Patricia V, Weese Dylan J, Yang Wendy H, Lau Jennifer A
Abstract excerpt
PREMISE: Nutrients, light, water, and temperature are key factors limiting the growth of individual plants in nature. Mutualistic interactions between plants and microbes often mediate resource limitation for both partners. In the mutualism between legumes and rhizobia, plants provide rhizobia with carbon in exchange for fixed nitrogen. Because partner quality in mutualisms is genotype-dependent, within-species...
Topics
- Fabaceae
- Genotype
- Nitrogen Fixation
- Rhizobium
- Symbiosis