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The Influence of Lipopolysaccharides and Glucans from Two Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae Strains on the Formation and Efficiency of Their Symbioses with Pea Plants

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The influence of lipopolysaccharides (LPS), glucans, and their unseparated complexes on nodulation activity of rhizobia and efficiency of their symbioses with pea plants was studied in vegetation tests. Two Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae strains which differed in their symbiotic properties were used: strain 31 (fix+, efficient, moderately virulent, and moderately competitive) and strain 248b (fix–, inefficient, highly virulent, and highly competitive). Preparations of LPS–glucan complex and the respective LPS from the highly virulent strain 248b increased the nodulation activity of both strains by 10–26%. Analogous preparations from a less virulent strain 31 did not have this ability. Unseparated LPS–glucan complexes from these strains increased the productivity of plants infected with the efficient strain by 18–23% but did not change it in plants inoculated with the other, inefficient strain. No significant influence of LPS preparations on the symbiosis productivity was observed. Glucans from both strains enhanced the nodulation ability of the highly virulent strain by 36–56%. In addition, treatment of pea plants with glucan from strain 248b increased nitrogen fixation by root nodules by 27% in plants inoculated with strain 31. In general, the formation and efficiency of the symbiosis of R. leguminosarum bv. viciae with pea plants was more influenced by preparations from strain 248b, highly virulent but deficient in nitrogen fixation, than by preparations from the nitrogen fixation–proficient but less virulent strain 31.

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Antipchuk, A.F., Kosenko, L.V. The Influence of Lipopolysaccharides and Glucans from Two Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae Strains on the Formation and Efficiency of Their Symbioses with Pea Plants. Microbiology 73, 51–55 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MICI.0000016368.23462.eb

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