title: Role of lectins (and rhizobial exopolysaccharides) in legume nodulation.
abstract: The lectin recognition hypothesis proposes that plant lectins mediate specificity in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis. Although the hypothesis was developed eight years before nod genes were identified in rhizobia and sixteen years before Nod factor was shown to be a major determinant of host specificity, experiments performed recently using transgenic lectin plants support its main tenets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cell and Development Biology, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA. ahirsch@ucla.edu
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hirsch
mesh_terms: D007887:Fabaceae / Q000502:physiology*; D037102:Lectins / Q000502:physiology*; D009586:Nitrogen Fixation / Q000502:physiology; D037121:Plant Lectins; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000502:physiology*; D012231:Rhizobium / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D037102:Lectins; D037121:Plant Lectins; D011134:Polysaccharides