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ReviewMicrobial biotechnology2021

Legume-rhizobium dance: an agricultural tool that could be improved?

Laura A Basile, Viviana C Lepek

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Review in Microbial biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Characterization of chemotaxis in soybean symbiontApplied and environmental microbiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Laura A BasileInstituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas "Dr. Rodolfo A. Ugalde", Universidad Nacional de San Martín (IIB-UNSAM-CONICET), Av. 25 de Mayo y Francia, Gral. San Martín, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, B1650HMP, Argentina.
Viviana C LepekInstituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas "Dr. Rodolfo A. Ugalde", Universidad Nacional de San Martín (IIB-UNSAM-CONICET), Av. 25 de Mayo y Francia, Gral. San Martín, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, B1650HMP, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-0501-1898

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The specific interaction between rhizobia and legume roots leads to the development of a highly regulated process called nodulation, by which the atmospheric nitrogen is converted into an assimilable plant nutrient. This capacity is the basis for the use of bacterial inoculants for field crop cultivation. Legume plants have acquired tools that allow the entry of compatible bacteria. Likewise, plants can impose sanctions against the maintenance of nodules occupied by rhizobia with low nitrogen-fixing capacity. At the same time, bacteria must overcome different obstacles posed first by the environment and then by the legume. The present review describes the mechanisms involved in the regulation of the entire legume-rhizobium symbiotic process and the strategies and tools of bacteria for reaching the nitrogen-fixing state inside the nodule. Also, we revised different approaches to improve the nodulation process for a better crop yield.

Indexed as

FabaceaeRhizobiumAgricultureNitrogen FixationSymbiosisVegetables

Identifiers

PMID34318611
PMCPMC8449669

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