MgtE From Rhizobium leguminosarum Is a Mg2+ Channel Essential for Growth at Low pH and N2 Fixation on Specific Plants

MgtE is predicted to be a Rhizobium leguminosarum channel and is essential for growth when both Mg2+ is limiting and the pH is low. N2 was only fixed at 8% of the rate of wild type when the crop legume Pisum sativum was inoculated with an mgtE mutant of R. leguminosarum and, although bacteroids were...

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Main Authors: Graham Hood, Ramakrishnan Karunakaran, J. Allan Downie, Philip Poole
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The American Phytopathological Society 2015-12-01
Series:Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Online Access:https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/MPMI-07-15-0166-R