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Symbiosis in legumes

NCRs make the difference

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Various clades of legume plants irreversibly modify the development of their symbiotic nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. Key transcription factors controlling this process have been identified. They are conserved and functional even in plant species that do not induce such a terminal differentiation.

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Fig. 1: Key regulators of TBD are present and functional in legume species that do not trigger TBD.

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Gourion, B. NCRs make the difference. Nat. Plants 9, 199–200 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01346-8

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