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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Plant nodulation inducers enhance horizontal gene transfer of Azorhizobium caulinodans symbiosis island.

Jun Ling, Hui Wang, Ping Wu, Tao Li, Yu Tang, Nawar Naseer, Huiming Zheng, Catherine Masson-Boivin, Zengtao Zhong, Jun Zhu

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 100 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Jun LingDepartment of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
Hui WangDepartment of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
Ping WuDepartment of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
Tao LiDepartment of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
Yu TangDepartment of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
Nawar NaseerDepartment of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Huiming ZhengDepartment of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
Catherine Masson-BoivinInstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR 441, Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes, Castanet-Tolosan 31326, France.
Zengtao ZhongDepartment of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China; mol_microb@njau.edu.cn junzhu@upenn.edu.
Jun ZhuDepartment of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China; mol_microb@njau.edu.cn junzhu@upenn.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9182-5224
Nanjing Agricultural University · CNLaboratoire des Interactions Plantes Micro-Organismes · FRUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

ROS responses during Vibrio cholerae infectionR01AI120489 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ZHU, JUN · 2016 to 2020
$2.4M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI120489
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of genomic islands is a driving force of bacterial evolution. Many pathogens and symbionts use this mechanism to spread mobile genetic elements that carry genes important for interaction with their eukaryotic hosts. However, the role of the host in this process remains unclear. Here, we show that plant compounds inducing the nodulation process in the rhizobium-legume mutualistic symbiosis also enhance the transfer of symbiosis islands. We demonstrate that the symbiosis island of the Sesbania rostrata symbiont, Azorhizobium caulinodans, is an 87.6-kb integrative and conjugative element (ICE

Indexed as

Azorhizobium caulinodansFabaceaeGene Transfer, HorizontalGenomic IslandsNitrogen FixationPlant Root NodulationSymbiosishorizontal gene transferhost-rangeintegrative and conjugative elementnaringeninnodulation

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PMID27849579
PMCPMC5137767
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