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Katy D Heath1,2, Rebecca T Batstone2, Mario Cerón Romero2
1Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigngrid.35403.31, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
Abstract:
Despite decades of research, we are only just beginning to understand the forces maintaining variation in the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between rhizobial bacteria and leguminous plants. In their recent work, Alexandra Weisberg and colleagues use genomics to document the breadth of mobile element diversity that carries the symbiosis genes of Bradyrhizobium in natural populations. Studying rhizobia from the perspective of their mobile genetic elements, which have their own transmission modes and fitness interests, reveals novel mechanisms for the generation and maintenance of diversity in natural populations of these ecologically and economically important mutualisms.
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