Rhizobium--plant signal exchange.
Initial stages in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis can be thought of as a reciprocal molecular conversation: transmission of a gene inducer from legume host to bacterium, with ensuing bacterial synthesis of a morphogen that is transmitted to the plant, switching the developmental fate of the legume root. These signal molecules have a key role in determining bacterium-host specificity and the purified Nod factor compounds provide useful new tools to probe plant cell function.
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Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305-5020.
Long
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D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D007887:Fabaceae / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D012231:Rhizobium / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013559:Symbiosis
D001426:Bacterial Proteins