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Adaptation to Phosphate Stress by N2-Fixing Legumes: Lessons to Learn from the Model Medicago truncatula

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The central importance of inorganic phosphate (Pi) in legume nutrition and agricultural sustainability has long been recognized. However, Pi concentration in soil solution is often low because it readily forms insoluble complexes with calcium in alkaline soils or with iron and aluminum oxides in acidic soils. Consequently, low Pi availability is frequently the most limiting nutrient for plant growth and development over the majority of the earth’s land surface. Among the legumes, the model plant Medicago truncatula has emerged as a well-established system for characterization of Pi deficiency on leguminous plants at the physiological and molecular levels. The recent published reports have contributed to major advances in understanding the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms/pathways in M. truncatula root nodules to ameliorate low Pi stress. Metabolic and gene expression profiles of M. truncatula nodules induced by Pi stress reveal interesting features, including rearrangement of Pi, carbon, and nitrogen homeostases, enabling plants to cope with Pi scarcity. In this context, the separate impacts of Pi deficiency on such candidate regulatory pathways should be considered, but moreover their interacting and entwined networks cannot be excluded. Therefore, understanding the responsive and adaptive mechanisms conferring Pi tolerance to the M. truncatula symbiotic system is very important for the development of selection and breeding strategies.

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Preparation of this contribution was supported in part by the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to Saad Sulieman.

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    Saad Sulieman

  2. Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan

    Lam-Son Phan Tran

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Sulieman, S., Tran, LS.P. (2017). Adaptation to Phosphate Stress by N2-Fixing Legumes: Lessons to Learn from the Model Medicago truncatula . In: Sulieman, S., Tran, LS. (eds) Legume Nitrogen Fixation in Soils with Low Phosphorus Availability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55729-8_10

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