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Legume-Rhizobium-Symbiosis: Host’s Point of View

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The legume-Rhizobium endosymbiosis may be the most highly evolved and perhaps ultimate association between a microbe and a plant in which the two partners can still grow independently. Undoubtedly the strong selective pressure on this association is the resulting nutritional complementation: the plant can be considerd a carbon-rich, nitrogen-deficient phototroph and the Rhizobium a carbon-deficient, nitrogen-fixing heterotroph. The resulting symbiosis which occurs in a specialized organ, the root nodule, makes the plant autotrophic with respect to the availability of reduced nitrogen, a limiting factor in plant nutrition. This unique intracellular association contributes significantly towards the yield of the agriculturally important legume crops.

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Verma, D.P.S., Nadler, K. (1984). Legume-Rhizobium-Symbiosis: Host’s Point of View. In: Verma, D.P.S., Hohn, T. (eds) Genes Involved in Microbe-Plant Interactions. Plant Gene Research. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8739-5_3

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