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Biotechnological Perspectives of Legume–Rhizobium Symbiosis

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Rhizobium Biology and Biotechnology

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For the last two decades, research on legume–rhizobia symbiosis has outlined opportunities for biotechnological approaches to supply nitrogen to crop plants. New research results on legume and rhizobial diversity suggest about the conserved genes/proteins in host and symbionts and help to determine whether the nitrogen-fixing ability can be transferred to non-legume crops. In addition, the wild rhizobia with specific characters are a source for genetic information to improve symbiotic characters of other rhizobia and may be also used for other biotechnological approaches. These approaches include the production of polysaccharides, phytohormones, metabolites, bioremediation, etc. This field of research will be the focus of future investigations for biotechnological purposes.

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Vaishnav, A., Hansen, A.P., Agrawal, P.K., Varma, A., Choudhary, D.K. (2017). Biotechnological Perspectives of Legume–Rhizobium Symbiosis. In: Hansen, A., Choudhary, D., Agrawal, P., Varma, A. (eds) Rhizobium Biology and Biotechnology. Soil Biology, vol 50. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64982-5_12

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