One hundred years of solitude: Integrating single-strain inoculations with community perspectives in the legume-rhizobium symbiosis

New Phytologist

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-9

  Friesen, Maren L ^a,c   Heath, Katy D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness conflict; Legume; Mutualism; Rhizobia; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FABACEAE; GENETICS; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FABACEAE; GENETIC FITNESS; RHIZOBIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 84874200150     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12173     Document Type: Letter

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