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FER meets the Nod factor pathway

Nature Plants volume 9, pages 1581–1582 (2023)Cite this article

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Single-nucleus transcriptomic analysis of Medicago roots reveals dynamic cell-specific responses to the Nod factor — a bacterially secreted chito-lipopolysaccharide with a key role in the root nodule symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia — and identifies the receptor-like kinase FERONIA as a phosphorylation target of the Nod factor receptor LYK3, which together function to control nodule formation and bacterial infection.

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Fig. 1: FER interacts and is phosphorylated by LYK3 to mediate root nodule symbiosis.

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Zanetti, M.E. FER meets the Nod factor pathway. Nat. Plants 9, 1581–1582 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01531-9

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