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ArticleScience advances2021

Metabolic control of nitrogen fixation in rhizobium-legume symbioses.

Carolin C M Schulte, Khushboo Borah, Rachel M Wheatley, Jason J Terpolilli, Gerhard Saalbach, Nick Crang, Daan H de Groot, R George Ratcliffe, Nicholas J Kruger, Antonis Papachristodoulou and 1 more

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Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
46citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Carolin C M SchulteDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7574-6259
Khushboo BorahDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9030-2085
Rachel M WheatleyDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1212-2286
Jason J TerpolilliJohn Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4306-3346
Gerhard SaalbachJohn Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9849-4875
Nick CrangDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7569-6597
Daan H de GrootSystems Biology Lab, AIMMS, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7070-8950
R George RatcliffeDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. george.ratcliffe@plants.ox.ac.uk nick.kruger@plants.ox.ac.uk antonis@eng.ox.ac.uk philip.poole@plants.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8394-1575
Nicholas J KrugerDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. george.ratcliffe@plants.ox.ac.uk nick.kruger@plants.ox.ac.uk antonis@eng.ox.ac.uk philip.poole@plants.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0492-3542
Antonis PapachristodoulouDepartment of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. george.ratcliffe@plants.ox.ac.uk nick.kruger@plants.ox.ac.uk antonis@eng.ox.ac.uk philip.poole@plants.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3565-8967
Philip S PooleDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. george.ratcliffe@plants.ox.ac.uk nick.kruger@plants.ox.ac.uk antonis@eng.ox.ac.uk philip.poole@plants.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5087-6455
University of Oxford · GBJohn Innes Centre · GBVrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rhizobia induce nodule formation on legume roots and differentiate into bacteroids, which catabolize plant-derived dicarboxylates to reduce atmospheric N

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PMCPMC8324050
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