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Tag - legume
Rachel Shekar
An acceptable elitism? Getting the best out of nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Marcela Mendoza-Suárez and colleagues have a new tool to turbocharge legumes.
Liam Elliott
Hypernodulating soybean mutant line nod4 lacking ‘Autoregulation of Nodulation’ has limited root-to-shoot water transport capacity
Although hypernodulating phenotype mutants of legumes, such as soybean, possess a high leaf N content, the large number of root nodules decreases carbohydrate availability for plant growth and seed yield. In addition...
Alex Assiry
A generic individual-based model (IBM) tool to disentangle plant interactions in forage legumes
Louarn and Faverjon develop a generic model to account for the growth and development of herbaceous legume species with contrasting above- and below-ground architectures. The individual-based model (IBM) integrates...
botanyone
Effects of plant polyploidy on the legume-rhizobia mutualism
Polyploidy alters plant genomes, phenotypes, and abiotic interactions. The effects of polyploidy on plant-biotic interactions however are less well known. One important plant-biotic interaction is the legume-rhizobia...
Evolution and structural diversification of Nictaba-like lectin genes in food crops
Lectins are an inherent component of plant immunity systems. Van Holle et al. study the occurrence and evolution of the family of Nictaba-like lectin genes and report the omnipresence of these genes in a wide range of...
Illuminating the mesocosm…
Constant light sources during the night have profound consequences on aphid populations in grassland ecosystems
Nigel Chaffey
Novel lineage-specific inversion and legume plastome evolution
Martin et al. sequence the plastome of Lupinus luteus, representing the Genistoid lineage, and perform comparative analyses at the structural and sequence levels.
Matching roots to their environment (Special Issue)
How the roots of land plants evolved, how root ecology affects the utilization of soil resources, and the influence of plant roots on biogeochemical cycles.
Conservative shoot P content under varying supply
The Australian legume Viminaria juncea forms both cluster roots and mycorrhizal associations. de Campos et al. manipulate P supply over a range of 0 to 50 mg P kg–1 dry soil in order to investigate if these root...
Putative phytological pugilism (probably…) [or, One species – two genomes?]
In the genteel world of botany, one may be surprised to discover that – occasionally! – disagreements can arise, and that tempers can get just a little heated. Well, in an attempt to expose the darker side to the...
Floral biomechanics and pollination in Fabaceae
Papilionoid Fabaceae include species with flowers that have obstacles that have to be actively moved by a visitor before floral rewards can be accessed and pollination can take place. Córdoba and Cocucci study six...
