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Intimacy stabilizes symbiotic nodulation

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Transcriptomics of nitrogen-fixing plants and their symbionts reveals the origins of root-nodulating symbiosis and how it has endured more in some groups than others

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Fig. 1: Mimosa speciosissima emerging after a fire event in the Brazilian Cerrado.

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