ReviewDNA and cell biology2009
Coevolution in Rhizobium-legume symbiosis?
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- All Set before Flowering: A 16S Gene Amplicon-Based Analysis of the Root Microbiome Recruited by Common Bean (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Molecular diversity of rhizobia-nodulating native Mimosa of Brazilian protected areas.Archives of microbiology · 2021Article
- A Stringent-Response-Defective Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens Strain Does Not Activate the Type 3 Secretion System, Elicits an Early Plant Defense Response, and Circumvents NHApplied and environmental microbiology · 2021Article
- Evolution of division of labour in mutualistic symbiosis.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Diversity and phenotypic analyses of salt- and heat-tolerant wild bean Phaseolus filiformis rhizobia native of a sand beach in Baja California and description of Ensifer aridi sp. nov.Archives of microbiology · 2020Article
- Genetic Interaction Studies Reveal Superior Performance of Rhizobium tropici CIAT899 on a Range of Diverse East African Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Genotypes.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2019Article
- PhylogenomicFrontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
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- Phylogeny and Phylogeography of Rhizobial Symbionts Nodulating Legumes of the Tribe Genisteae.Genes · 2018Review
- Is there sufficientApplied soil ecology : a section of Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment · 2017Article
- The Symbiosome: Legume and Rhizobia Co-evolution toward a Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle?Frontiers in plant science · 2017Review
- Natural rhizobial diversity helps to reveal genes and QTLs associated with biological nitrogen fixation in common bean.AIMS microbiology · 2017Review
- Biogeographical Patterns of Legume-Nodulating Burkholderia spp.: from African Fynbos to Continental Scales.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Legume nodules, specialized structures for nitrogen fixation, are probably the result of coevolution of plants and ancestral rhizobia. Among the evolutionary processes leading to legume radiation and divergence, coevolution with rhizobia might have occurred. Alternatively, bacteria could have been constantly selected by plants, with bacteria slightly influencing plant evolution (required to fulfill the criteria for a coevolutionary hypothesis). Evidence of bacterial effects on plant evolution is scarce but being searched for. Bacterial genetic plasticity may be indicative of the large capacity of Rhizobium to adapt to legumes. Events such as symbiotic replacement, easy recruitment of symbiotic bacteria by legume plants, and lateral transfer of symbiotic genes seem to erase the coevolutionary or selected relationships in rhizobial-legume symbiosis. In particular, the hypotheses proposed are (1) Rhizobium replaced Bradyrhizobium in a few hosts of the Phaseoleae tribe, Phaseolus vulgaris and P. coccineus; (2) Rhizobium etli as a species did not coevolve with bean; and (3) beta-Proteobacteria replaced alpha-Proteobacteria in South American mimosas. Novel results on symbiosis suggest a more complex evolutionary process for nodulation that may include multiple organisms, such as mycorrhiza, nematodes, and other bacteria in addition to rhizobia.
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