MGEs as the MVPs of Partner Quality Variation in Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis Journal Articles

abstract

• Despite decades of research, we are only just beginning to understand the forces maintaining variation in the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between rhizobial bacteria and leguminous plants. In their recent work, Alexandra Weisberg and colleagues use genomics to document the breadth of mobile element diversity that carries the symbiosis genes of Bradyrhizobium in natural populations.

authors

• Heath, Katy D
• Batstone, Rebecca
• Cerón Romero, Mario
• McMullen, John G

status

• published 

publication date

• August 30, 2022

has subject area

• 0605 Microbiology (FoR)
• Bradyrhizobium (MeSH)
• Fabaceae (MeSH)
• Nitrogen Fixation (MeSH)
• Rhizobium (MeSH)
• Symbiosis (MeSH)
• Vegetables (MeSH)

published in

• mBio  Journal

keywords

• Bradyrhizobium
• Fabaceae
• ICE
• MGEs
• Nitrogen Fixation
• Rhizobium
• Symbiosis
• Vegetables
• evolution
• mutualism
• plasmid
• symbiosis

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1128/mbio.00888-22

start page

• e0088822

volume

• 13

issue

• 4