Legumes are ecologically and economically important plants that contribute to nutrient
cycling and agricultural sustainability, features tied to their intimate symbiosis with nitrogen …

Nitrogen is an essential element needed for plants to survive, and legumes are well known
to recruit rhizobia to fix atmospheric nitrogen. In this widely studied symbiosis, legumes …

Advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic analyses are accelerating the
quantity and quality of data from all domains of life. This rich resource has the potential to …

Summary Rhizobial lipochitooligosaccharidic Nod factors (NFs), specified by nod genes, are
the primary determinants of host specificity in the legume–Rhizobia symbiosis. We …

While rhizobia have long been recognised as the primary colonisers of legume nodules,
microbiome studies have revealed the presence of other bacteria in these organs. This …

The Lotus japonicus population carrying new Lotus retrotransposon 1 (LORE1) insertions
represents a valuable biological resource for genetic research. New insertions were …

Nodule microbiota are dominated by symbiotic nitrogen‐fixing rhizobia, however, other non‐
rhizobial bacteria also colonise this niche. Although many of these bacteria harbour plant …

Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii (Rlt) is a root-associated soil bacterium (rhizobia)
capable of entering a symbiotic relationship with various species of clover (Trifolium sp.) and …