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June 2002
Plant–microbe interactions: Shared roots to symbiosis
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| Photo: K. Findlay,
John Innes Centre. |
Two groups isolate the symbiosis receptor-like kinase gene from Lotus and pea plants, and from the model legume Medicago sp., a relative of alfalfa. This protein is essential for the plants' relationships with both bacterial and fungal symbionts involved in nitrogen fixation; a point of convergence between the two processes. Cover (from Stracke et al.), an electron micrograph of root hairs of Lotus japonicus, two entwined in response to inoculation with the bacterial symbiont Mesorhizobium loti.
A plant receptor-like kinase required for both bacterial
and fungal symbiosis
SILKE STRACKE, CATHERINE
KISTNER, SATOKO YOSHIDA, LONNEKE MULDER, SHUSEI SATO, TAKAKAZU KANEKO, SATOSHI
TABATA, NIELS SANDAL, JENS STOUGAARD, KRZYSZTOF SZCZYGLOWSKI & MARTIN PARNISKE
Nature 417, 959–962 (2002); doi:10.1038/nature00841
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A receptor kinase gene regulating symbiotic nodule development
GABRIELLA ENDRE, ATTILA KERESZT, ZOLT�N KEVEI, SORINA MIHACEA,
P�TER KAL� & GY�RGY B. KISS
Nature 417, 962–966 (2002);
doi:10.1038/nature00842
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Plant-microbe interactions: A receptor in symbiotic
dialogue
HERMAN P. SPAINK
Proteins that help
plants connect with symbiotic microbes have been identified. These proteins are
related to receptors in animals and plants that function in the innate immune
system and organ development.
Nature 417, 910–911 (2002);
doi:10.1038/417910a
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