Abstract
Lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCO’s) have been known for some time as the Nod factors that are released by nitrogen-fixing Rhizobia and are essential for their capacity to induce nodules on leguminous plants. The structure of these LCO’s was solved by Lerouge in 1990 (P. Lerouge et al., 1990). The question we want to address is whether LCO’s are specific signals evolved by Rhizobia to induce nodulation or whether LCO’s are playing a more general role in plant development and have been adapted by Rhizobia to play a crucial role in nitrogen fixation by being essential for nodule formation.
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Schell, J., Schmidt, J., John, M., Röhrig, H. (1998). Lipo-Chitooligosaccharides (LCO’s) as Growth Hormones. In: Elmerich, C., Kondorosi, A., Newton, W.E. (eds) Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the 21st Century. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5159-7_1
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