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SUBMITTER: Suzuki A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3189040 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Suzuki Akihiro A Suriyagoda Lalith L Shigeyama Tamaki T Tominaga Akiyoshi A Sasaki Masayo M Hiratsuka Yoshimi Y Yoshinaga Aya A Arima Susumu S Agarie Sakae S Sakai Tatsuya T Inada Sayaka S Jikumaru Yusuke Y Kamiya Yuji Y Uchiumi Toshiki T Abe Mikiko M Hashiguchi Masatsugu M Akashi Ryo R Sato Shusei S Kaneko Takakazu T Tabata Satoshi S Hirsch Ann M AM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110919 40
Light is critical for supplying carbon to the energetically expensive, nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia. Here, we show that phytochrome B (phyB) is part of the monitoring system to detect suboptimal light conditions, which normally suppress Lotus japonicus nodule development after Mesorhizobium loti inoculation. We found that the number of nodules produced by L. japonicus phyB mutants is significantly reduced compared with the number produced of WT Miyakojima MG20. To explo ...[more]