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For over a century, Rhizobium species have been studied due to their ability to establish nitrogen-fixing symbioses with leguminous plants. During the past decade, intensive biochemical and molecular genetics studies have paved the way for an intimate understanding of the nodulation and nitrogen fixation processes (1,2).
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Romero, D. et al. (1991). Geonomic Instability in Rhizobium: Friend or Foe?. In: Hennecke, H., Verma, D.P.S. (eds) Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions Vol. 1. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7934-6_32
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