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Mutations affecting nodulation in grain legumes and their potential in sustainable cropping systems

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Many spontaneous and a large number of induced mutants that show altered nodulation pattern have been isolated in pea, soybean, common bean, faba bean, chickpea, groundnut and pigeonpea. Available information on nodulation mutants in these crops is summarised. The importance of nodulation mutants in basic studies on plant-microbe symbiotic interactions, nitrogen fixation and breeding of cultivars with higher yield and nitrogen fixation rate are examined. The nodulation mutants, after inoculation with specific bacterial strains or a number of different strains, show either: no nodulation (nod−), few nodules (nod+/−), ineffective nodulation (fix−), hyper nodulation (nod++) or hypernodulation even in the presence of otherwise inhibitory nitrate levels (nts). No spontaneous hypernodulation or nts mutants have been found, all have been induced in independent experiments using different cultivars of pea, soybean and common bean after mutagenising seeds. Most nodulation mutants show monogenic recessive inheritance, though semi-dominant and dominant inheritance is also reported. Nodule number is controlled by a process known as autoregulation; hypernodulating mutants show relaxed autoregulation. By grafting shoots of hypernodulating soybean mutant on normal nodulating soybean, mungbean and hyacinth bean, presence of a common, translocatable signal has been shown. Nodulation mutants have contributed to the understanding of the genetic regulation of hostsymbiont interactions, nodule development and N fixation. Initially, the hypernodulating mutants were found to be poor in yield. Using the induced hypernodulating mutant, a new soybean cultivar ‘Nitrobean 60’, has been released in Australia. This cultivar is reported to have given 15% higher yield over cv. ‘Bragg,’ and contributed a higher amount of fixed N to the following cereal crop in rotation. Prospects of using the nodulation mutants in developing grain legume cultivars that combine high yield with high residual N, within the bioenergetic constraints, for developing sustainable cropping systems are examined.

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