Legumes regulate Rhizobium bacteroid development and persistence by the supply of branched-chain amino acids.
One of the largest contributions to biologically available nitrogen comes from the reduction of N(2) to ammonia by rhizobia in symbiosis with legumes. Plants supply dicarboxylic acids as a carbon source to bacteroids, and in return they receive ammonia. However, metabolic exchange must be more compl...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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