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Structural Determination and Biosynthetic Studies of the Rhizobial Nod Metabolites: The Lipo-Chitin Oligosaccharides

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The soil-enriching properties of legumes were recognized as long ago as ancient Roman times, when systems of crop rotation using legumes to fertilize the soil were devised [1]. The fertilizing properties of legumes arise from a symbiosis between members of the plant family Leguminosae and rhizobia (soil bacteria of the genera Rhizobium, Bradyrhizobium, and Azorhizobium) which today has huge agronomic and ecological importance. The bacteria induce their host plant to form a new organ, the root nodule, within which they convert atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia, which can be used by the plant as a nitrogen source. Leguminous root nodules represent the largest single source of organic nitrogen in the global nitrogen cycle, fixing as much nitrogen per annum as is produced by the fertilizer industry [2].

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  1. Department of Mass Spectrometry, Universiteit Utrecht, Sorbonnelaan 16, NL-3584, CA Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jane E. Thomas-Oates, Jorrit D. J. van den Berg, Koen M. G. M. van der Drift & Geert Jan Rademaker

  2. Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, Leiden University, NL-2333, AL Leiden, The Netherlands

    Guido V. Bloemberg, Isabel M. López-Lara & Herman P. Spaink

  3. Institut für Biotechnologie, FG Technische Biochemie, Technische Universität Berlin, D13353, Berlin, Germany

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Thomas-Oates, J.E. et al. (1996). Structural Determination and Biosynthetic Studies of the Rhizobial Nod Metabolites: The Lipo-Chitin Oligosaccharides. In: Burlingame, A.L., Carr, S.A. (eds) Mass Spectrometry in the Biological Sciences. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0229-5_20

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