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Recent advances in Rhizobium genetics have led to increased optimism regarding the possibility of enhancing symbiotic N2 fixation by generating superior strains of Rhizobium that combine the best attributes from different parental strains. The procedures for developing such strains involve the identification of desired traits, the genetic marking and mapping of such traits, and the transfer of the traits with their markers to another strain which already has desirable traits of a different nature. Since at least some of the genetic information that codes for both root infectivity and nodule effectiveness appears to be located on Plasmids in Rhizobium species (Higashi, 1967; Duncan et al., 1967; Nuti et al., 1979; Johnston et al., 1978; Brewin et al., dy1980a,b;) it may be possible to develop “superior” Rhizobium strains by plasmid transfers between strains.
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DeJong, T.M., Brewin, N.J., Phillips, D.A. (1981). Physiological Interactions Between Alaska Peas and Strains of Rhizobium Leguminosarum that Differ in Plasmid-Linked Genes. In: Lyons, J.M., Valentine, R.C., Phillips, D.A., Rains, D.W., Huffaker, R.C. (eds) Genetic Engineering of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and Conservation of Fixed Nitrogen. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3953-3_19
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