Lifestyle adaptations of Rhizobium from rhizosphere to symbiosis

By analyzing successive lifestyle stages of a model Rhizobium-legume symbiosis using mariner-based transposon insertion sequencing (INSeq), we have defined the genes required for rhizosphere growth, root colonization, bacterial infection, N2-fixing bacteroids and release from legume (pea) nodules. While only 27 genes are annotated as nif and fix in Rhizobium leguminosarum,... Show more