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The detection of leghemoglobin-line sequences in legumes and non-legumes

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Leghemoglobin is a major component of the nitrogen-fixing nodules formed by legumes in association with bacterial symbionts of the genusRhizobium. It is thought to be involved in regulating the oxygen tension within nodules. In a series of Southern blot experiments using cloned soybean leghemoglobin cDNAs as hybridization probes, cross-hybridizing sequences have been detected in legumes closely related to soybean (members of the Leguminosae subfamily Papilionoideae), as well as in a distantly related legume not reported to be nodulated (subfamily Caesalpinioideae). With the same probes, the presence of cross-hybridizing sequences has also been detected in plants outside the Leguminosae, including two nitrogen-fixing non-legumes and one species which is not nodulated. These results suggest that the genes for oxygen-binding proteins may be more widely dispersed than previously thought.

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Hattori, J., Johnson, D.A. The detection of leghemoglobin-line sequences in legumes and non-legumes. Plant Mol Biol 4, 285–292 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02418247

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