Biological nitrogen fixation by Rhizobium-legume symbioses represents an environmentally
friendly and inexpensive alternative to the use of chemical nitrogen fertilizers in legume …

The role of bacterial surface components in combination with bacterial functional signals in
the process of biofilm formation has been increasingly studied in recent years. Plants …

Fusarium is a complex genus of ascomycete fungi that consists of plant pathogens of
agricultural relevance. Controlling Fusarium infection in crops that leads to substantial yield …

Metagenomics (also referred to as environmental and community genomics) is the genomic
analysis of microorganisms by direct extraction and cloning of DNA from an assemblage of …

Current data from bacterial pathogens of animals and from bacterial symbionts of plants
support some of the more general proposed functions for lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and …

Referee: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Werner, FG Zellbiologie und Angewandte Botanik, Fachbereich
Biologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse, D-35032 Marburg, Germany …

When the rhizosphere is nitrogen‐starved, legumes and rhizobia (soil bacteria) enter into a
symbiosis that enables the fixation of atmospheric dinitrogen. This implies a complex …

Symbiotic nitrogen fixation is carried out in specialized organs, the nodules, whose
formation is induced on leguminous host plants by bacteria belonging to the family …

Although 'cheaters' potentially destabilize the legume–rhizobium mutualism, we lack a
comprehensive review of host–symbiont fitness correlations.• Studies measuring rhizobium …

Nitrogen (N2) fixation is one of the most important biological processes on earth, with a
commonly accepted estimate for global N2 fixation of 175 million metric tons (Tg) annually …