The symbiosis between Lotus and rhizobia has been long considered very specific and only
two bacterial species were recognized as the microsymbionts of Lotus: Mesorhizobium loti …

Lotus japonicus is a herbaceous perennial legume that has been used extensively as a
genetically tractable model system for deciphering the molecular genetics of symbiotic …

Environmental changes challenge plants and drive adaptation to new conditions,
suggesting that natural biodiversity may be a source of adaptive alleles acting through …

Lotus japonicus is a well-studied nodulating legume and a model organism for the
investigation of plant-microbe interactions. The majority of legume transcriptome studies …

The broad-host-range bacterium Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 cannot nodulate the model
legume Lotus japonicus Gifu. This bacterium possesses a type III secretion system (T3SS), a …

To unlock the power of next generation sequencing-based bulked segregant analysis in
allele discovery in out-crossing woody species, and to understand the genetic control of the …

During the legume-rhizobium symbiotic interaction, rhizobial invasion of legumes is primarily
mediated by a plant-made tubular invagination called an infection thread (IT). Here, we …

Transposable elements (TEs) constitute a large proportion of genomes of multicellular
eukaryotes, including flowering plants. TEs are normally maintained in a silenced state and …

Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 RifR, a broad‐host‐range rhizobial strain, forms ineffective
nodules with Lotus japonicus but induces nitrogen‐fixing nodules in Lotus burttii roots that …

Sinorhizobium fredii HH103-Rifr, a broad host range rhizobial strain, induces nitrogen-fixing
nodules in Lotus burttii but ineffective nodules in L. japonicus. Confocal microscopy studies …