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Symbiosis for rhizobia is not an easy ride

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Philip Poole narrates his career story and his motivations for studying rhizobia, the agriculturally important bacterial plant symbiont responsible for fixing nitrogen.

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Fig. 1: The lifecycle of rhizobia.

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