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Nitrogen Assimilation in the Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis: A Joint Endeavour

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Genes Involved in Microbe-Plant Interactions

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The biological fixation of dinitrogen is the major source of renewable combined nitrogen available to the biosphere and is believed to be carried out solely by prokaryotic organisms (Postgate, 1982). The majority of this combined nitrogen is delivered directly to eukaryotic plants via a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen fixing bacteria. Such symbiotic relationships have been described for several genera of plants (see Broughton, 1982). By far the most important in an agricultural context is that between members of the Leguminoseae and Rhizobium sp., not surprisingly this has received the most detailed study and will be the subject of this review. As a general principle the prokaryotic partner contains the machinery for nitrogen fixation and the eukaryotic partner assimilates the ammonia produced into an organic form which is then used for the nutrition of the whole plant and also of the prokaryote. In return the eukaryote provides a suitable environment and a source of energy to enable the prokaryote to fix dinitrogen. A generalized scheme, which largely applies to the legume root nodule, is shown in Fig. 1.

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Miflin, B.J., Cullimore, J.V. (1984). Nitrogen Assimilation in the Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis: A Joint Endeavour. In: Verma, D.P.S., Hohn, T. (eds) Genes Involved in Microbe-Plant Interactions. Plant Gene Research. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8739-5_5

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