Rhizobia are some of the best-studied plant microbiota. These oligotrophic
Alphaproteobacteria or Betaproteobacteria form symbioses with their legume hosts …

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

Approximately 10% of bacterial genomes are split between two or more large DNA
fragments, a genome architecture referred to as a multipartite genome. This multipartite …

We face major agricultural challenges that remain a threat for global food security. Soil
microbes harbor enormous potentials to provide sustainable and economically favorable …

Rhizobia adopt many different lifestyles including survival in soil, growth in the rhizosphere,
attachment to root hairs and infection and growth within legume roots, both in infection …

By analyzing successive lifestyle stages of a model Rhizobium–legume symbiosis using
mariner-based transposon insertion sequencing (INSeq), we have defined the genes …

Low nutrient and energy availability has led to the evolution of numerous strategies for
overcoming these limitations, of which symbiotic associations represent a key mechanism …

Background The rhizosphere is the microbe-rich zone around plant roots and is a key
determinant of the biosphere's productivity. Comparative transcriptomics was used to …

Biological nitrogen fixation is vital to nutrient cycling in the biosphere and is the major route
by which atmospheric dinitrogen (N 2) is reduced to ammonia. The largest single …

The last decade brought great progress in describing the repertoire of microbes associated
with plants and identifying principles of their interactions. Metabolites exuded by plant roots …