Plant rhizobium-legume symbiosis

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

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. 

It is a characteristic of the rhizobium-legume symbiosis that the bacteria exhibit great specificity in their choice of host, indeed the genus Rhizobium is divided into species on the ability of the strain to form nodules in specific plant species (Table 6.1). Inter-species and inter-strain nodulation may occur, although often the nodules produced are atypical and fail to fix nitrogen effectively. 

A. Economou, Genetic and Biochemical Studies on die Modulation Genes of Rhizobitim leguminosanun bv. vidae, in H. Hennecke, D. P. S. Verma (Eds.), Advaruxs in Molecular Genetics of Plants Microbe Interactions 1990, pp. 134—141 A. W. B. Johnston, The Symbiosis between Rhizobium and Legumes, in D. a. Hopwood, K. F. Chater (Eds.), Genetics of Bacterial Diversity 1989, pp 393 14. 

LaRue, T. A., Kneen, B. E., and Gartside, E. (1985). In Analysis of Plant Genes Involved in Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis (R. Marcellin, ed.), pp. 39-48, OECO, Paris. 

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