Legumes symbiosis

Phenylpropanoids in Plant Defense and Plant-Pathogen Interactions Flavonoids and the Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis... 

One feature of the rhizobium-legume symbiosis is the high degree of specificity that many legumes and their symbiotic partners exhibit. For example, Sinorhizobium meliloti, the well-characterized bacterial symbiont of alflalfa and related Medicago species, is unable to nodule its close relative Pisum sativum (Mendel s pea), and conversely pea symbionts do not nodulate Medicago species. It is now clear that there are multiple molecular determinants... 

The Rhizobium-legume symbiosis, an interaction between a prokaryote (Rhizobium) and a eukaryote (legume), requires a series of sequential induction and function of both bacterium-encoded (bac-teroidins) and host-encoded (nodulins) nodule-specific proteins. It has been shown that many plant (Peters et al., 1986 Firmin et al., 1986 Djordjevic et al., 1987 Sadowsky et al., 1988 see also Peters Verma,... 

Gloudemans, T. Bisseling, T. (1989). Plant gene expression in early stages of Rhizobium-legume symbiosis. Plant Science 65, 1-14. 

Legocki, R.P. Verma, D.P.S. (1980). Identification of nodule-specific host proteins (nodulins) involved in the development of Rhizobium-legume symbiosis. Cell 20, 153-63. 

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