Controlling the reproductive fate of rhizobia: How universal are legume sanctions?

New Phytologist

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 967-979

  Oono, Ryoko ^a   Denison, R Ford ^a   Kiers, E Toby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteroid; Evolution; Kin selection; Legumes; Mutualism; Rhizobia; Sanctions; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOST PLANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; KIN SELECTION; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

LEGUME; NODULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

FABACEAE; REPRODUCTION; RHIZOBIUM; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIACEAE;

EID: 68749121401     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02941.x     Document Type: Review

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