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A Homeotic Mutation Changes Legume Nodule Ontogeny into Actinorhizal-Type Ontogeny.
The Plant cell - 1 Jun 2020
Shen Defeng, Xiao Ting Ting, van Velzen Robin, Kulikova Olga, Gong Xiaoyun, Geurts René, Pawlowski Katharina, Bisseling Ton
Abstract excerpt
Some plants fix atmospheric nitrogen by hosting symbiotic diazotrophic rhizobia or Frankia bacteria in root organs known as nodules. Such nodule symbiosis occurs in 10 plant lineages in four taxonomic orders: Fabales, Fagales, Cucurbitales, and Rosales, which are collectively known as the nitrogen-fixing clade. Nodules are divided into two types based on differences in ontogeny and histology: legume-type and...
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