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SUBMITTER: Berrabah F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3954807 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berrabah Fathi F Bourcy Marie M Cayrel Anne A Eschstruth Alexis A Mondy Samuel S Ratet Pascal P Gourion Benjamin B
PloS one 20140314 3
Rhizobia and legumes are able to interact in a symbiotic way leading to the development of root nodules. Within nodules, rhizobia fix nitrogen for the benefit of the plant. These interactions are efficient because spectacularly high densities of nitrogen fixing rhizobia are maintained in the plant cells. DNF2, a Medicago truncatula gene has been described as required for nitrogen fixation, bacteroid's persistence and to prevent defense-like reactions in the nodules. This manuscript shows that a ...[more]