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Seventeen translation products from Glycine max root mRNA precipitated with antiserum prepared against a peribacteroid membrane preparation from effective root nodules. Messenger RNA from fix +nodules coded for these 17 products plus 7 other nodule-specific polypeptides which bound to the antiserum. Of these 7 nodulins only 4 were present when nodules were infected with Bradyrhizobium japonicum 110 rif 15 2960, which induces the plant to produce ‘empty’ peribacteroid membranes. In nodules infected with B. japonicum strains inducing either very short-lived or defective peribacteroid membrane, only 5 or 6, respectively, of these nodulins could be detected.
From these results we hypothesize that the microsymbiont is responsible for the production of at least 4 different signals leading to peribacteriod membrane formation by the plant.
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Mellor, R.B., Garbers, C. & Werner, D. Peribacteroid membrane nodulin gene induction by Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutants. Plant Mol Biol 12, 307–315 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00043208
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