We define parasitism, as applied to prokaryote-plant interactions, in the broadest possible
sense: a parasite lives with a host and exploits its resources at some level. We note the …

Plants have acquired defense mechanisms to counteract potential pathogens. One such
strategy involves inducible defense reactions that are activated by elicitors, signaling …

The establishment of nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between a legume plant and its rhizobial
symbiont requires that the bacterium adapt to changing conditions that occur with the host …

The production of antimicrobial phytoalexins is one of the best-known inducible defence
responses following microbial infection of plants or treatment with elicitors. In the legume …

The chemical structures of the unusual hopanoid-containing lipid A samples of the
lipopolysaccharides (LPS) from three strains of Bradyrhizobium (slow-growing rhizobia) …

In this work we have characterised the Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 greA lpsB lpsCDE
genetic region and analysed for the first time the symbiotic performance of Sinorhizobium …

Rhizobia are soil bacteria that form important symbiotic associations with legumes, and
rhizobial surface polysaccharides, such as K-antigen polysaccharide (KPS) and …

In Lupinus luteus L., infection occurred via the curled root hair. Bradyrhizobia penetrated its
cell wall, probably by localized digestion, and then multiplied into the interior of the root hair …

The O-specific polysaccharide was obtained from the lipopolysaccharide of the legume-
endosymbiotic bacterium Ochrobactrum cytisi strain ESC1 T and studied by chemical …

Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of Rhizobium galegae, a symbiotically nitrogen-fixing species of
root-nodule bacteria, were isolated by the phenol-water method from strain HAMBI 1461, the …