Legumes initiate the symbiotic relationship between bacteria and plant by emitting flavonoid compounds that are recognized by the bacteria. Rhizobia then produce Nod factors, oligosaccharides that ...

Soil microbes known as rhizobia supply much-needed nitrogen to legumes such as clover (Trifolium species). In return, legumes shelter the rhizobia in nodules on their roots and provide them with ...

Unlike rhizobia and their legume partners, mycorrhizal associations are ubiquitous and relatively nonselective, occurring in ~80% of angiosperms and in all gymnosperms (Wilcox, 1991). The ability ...

When rhizobia infect legume roots, root epidermal cells form infection threads, membranous tube-like structures guiding the bacteria to the inner root tissue where they can fix nitrogen. Rhizobial ...

Rhizobia colonize these nodules and fix nitrogen ... In a new study, published in Nature Communications, researchers used the legume model plant Lotus japonicus to perform a transcriptome analysis ...

Farmers growing leguminous crops, the hosts for the nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria, can and should improve nitrogen by inoculating their legume crops with more of the bacteria. Grasslands ...

SUGAR bean farmers can save more than US$100 per hectare by using rhizobium bio-fertiliser instead of chemical fertilisers, the Government has advised, as planting of the legume reaches fever pitch.

The key to their success is a type of bacteria called rhizobia, which lives inside nodules ... had studied what the bacteria might do for non-legume plants, particularly during stages of germination.

Researchers in the group of Dr Myriam Charpentier discovered a mutation in a gene in the legume Medicago truncatula ... nitrogen fixing bacteria called rhizobia and arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi ...

Unlike rhizobia and their legume partners, mycorrhizal associations are ubiquitous and relatively nonselective, occurring in ~80% of angiosperms and in all gymnosperms (Wilcox, 1991). The ability ...