Celebrating 20 years of genetic discoveries in legume nodulation and symbiotic nitrogen fixation

S Roy, W Liu, RS Nandety, A Crook, KS Mysore… - The Plant …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Since 1999, various forward-and reverse-genetic approaches have uncovered nearly 200
genes required for symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) in legumes. These discoveries …

Transport and metabolism in legume-rhizobia symbioses

M Udvardi, PS Poole - Annual review of plant biology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Symbiotic nitrogen fixation by rhizobia in legume root nodules injects approximately 40
million tonnes of nitrogen into agricultural systems each year. In exchange for reduced …

Plants transfer lipids to sustain colonization by mutualistic mycorrhizal and parasitic fungi

Y Jiang, W Wang, Q **e, NA Liu, L Liu, D Wang… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi facilitate plant uptake of mineral nutrients and draw
organic nutrients from the plant. Organic nutrients are thought to be supplied primarily in the …

RNA-Seq Atlas of Glycine max: A guide to the soybean transcriptome

AJ Severin, JL Woody, YT Bolon, B Joseph, BW Diers… - BMC plant biology, 2010 - Springer
Background Next generation sequencing is transforming our understanding of
transcriptomes. It can determine the expression level of transcripts with a dynamic range of …

An integrated analysis of plant and bacterial gene expression in symbiotic root nodules using laser‐capture microdissection coupled to RNA sequencing

B Roux, N Rodde, MF Jardinaud, T Timmers… - The Plant …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Rhizobium‐induced root nodules are specialized organs for symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
Indeterminate‐type nodules are formed from an apical meristem and exhibit a spatial …

The role of flavonoids in nodulation host-range specificity: an update

CW Liu, JD Murray - Plants, 2016 - mdpi.com
Flavonoids are crucial signaling molecules in the symbiosis between legumes and their
nitrogen-fixing symbionts, the rhizobia. The primary function of flavonoids in the interaction is …

Arbuscular mycorrhiza‐specific enzymes FatM and RAM 2 fine‐tune lipid biosynthesis to promote development of arbuscular mycorrhiza

A Bravo, M Brands, V Wewer, P Dörmann… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
During arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (AMS), considerable amounts of lipids are
generated, modified and moved within the cell to accommodate the fungus in the root, and it …

An expanded maize gene expression atlas based on RNA sequencing and its use to explore root development

SC Stelpflug, RS Sekhon, B Vaillancourt… - The plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive and systematic transcriptome profiling provides valuable insight into
biological and developmental processes that occur throughout the life cycle of a plant. We …

Genome‐wide atlas of transcription during maize development

RS Sekhon, H Lin, KL Childs, CN Hansey… - The Plant …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Maize is an important model species and a major constituent of human and animal diets. It
has also emerged as a potential feedstock and model system for bioenergy research due to …

NIN-like protein transcription factors regulate leghemoglobin genes in legume nodules

S Jiang, MF Jardinaud, J Gao, Y Pecrix, J Wen… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Leghemoglobins enable the endosymbiotic fixation of molecular nitrogen (N2) in legume
nodules by channeling O2 for bacterial respiration while maintaining a micro-oxic …