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3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme a reductase 1 interacts with NORK and is crucial for nodulation in Medicago truncatula.

scientific article published on 21 December 2007

A Peptidoglycan-Remodeling Enzyme Is Critical for Bacteroid Differentiation in Bradyrhizobium spp. During Legume Symbiosis.

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A nonRD receptor-like kinase prevents nodule early senescence and defense-like reactions during symbiosis.

scientific article published on 11 June 2014

A novel family in Medicago truncatula consisting of more than 300 nodule-specific genes coding for small, secreted polypeptides with conserved cysteine motifs

scientific article published in May 2003

A paradigm for endosymbiotic life: cell differentiation of Rhizobium bacteria provoked by host plant factors.

scientific article published on January 2013

APC/C-CCS52A complexes control meristem maintenance in the Arabidopsis root

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Aging in legume symbiosis. A molecular view on nodule senescence in Medicago truncatula

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Alnus peptides modify membrane porosity and induce the release of nitrogen-rich metabolites from nitrogen-fixing Frankia

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Biosynthesis of Azorhizobium caulinodans Nod factors. Study of the activity of the NodABCS proteins by expression of the genes in Escherichia coli

scientific article published in December 1995

Boron and calcium induce major changes in gene expression during legume nodule organogenesis. Does boron have a role in signalling?

scientific article published on 08 May 2012

Bradyrhizobium BclA Is a Peptide Transporter Required for Bacterial Differentiation in Symbiosis with Aeschynomene Legumes.

scientific article published on 24 June 2015

Burkholderia insecticola triggers midgut closure in the bean bug Riptortus pedestris to prevent secondary bacterial infections of midgut crypts

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Burkholderia of Plant-Beneficial Group are Symbiotically Associated with Bordered Plant Bugs (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoroidea: Largidae).

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Characteristics of bacteroids in indeterminate nodules of the leguminous tree Leucaena glauca

scientific article published on 25 March 2011

Comparative cytology, physiology and transcriptomics of Burkholderia insecticola in symbiosis with the bean bug Riptortus pedestris and in culture

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Complementary and dose-dependent action of AtCCS52A isoforms in endoreduplication and plant size control

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Conserved CDC20 cell cycle functions are carried out by two of the five isoforms in Arabidopsis thaliana

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Convergent Evolution of Endosymbiont Differentiation in Dalbergioid and Inverted Repeat-Lacking Clade Legumes Mediated by Nodule-Specific Cysteine-Rich Peptides

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

DNA Methylation in <i>Ensifer</i> Species during Free-Living Growth and during Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis with <i>Medicago</i> spp

scientific article published on 04 January 2022

Differentiation of symbiotic cells and endosymbionts in Medicago truncatula nodulation are coupled to two transcriptome-switches.

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Endoreduplication mediated by the anaphase-promoting complex activator CCS52A is required for symbiotic cell differentiation in Medicago truncatula nodules.

scientific article published in September 2003

Eukaryotic control on bacterial cell cycle and differentiation in the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis

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Extreme specificity of NCR gene expression in Medicago truncatula

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Fragments of the Nonlytic Proline-Rich Antimicrobial Peptide Bac5 Kill Escherichia coli Cells by Inhibiting Protein Synthesis.

scientific article published on 27 July 2018

Fucosylation and arabinosylation of Nod factors in Azorhizobium caulinodans: involvement of nolK, nodZ as well as noeC and/or downstream genes

scientific article published in July 1996

Gene Expression in Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiotic Nodule Cells in Medicago truncatula and Other Nodulating Plants

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Genomic organization and evolutionary insights on GRP and NCR genes, two large nodule-specific gene families in Medicago truncatula.

scientific article published in September 2007

Heterologous Expression, Biosynthetic Studies, and Ecological Function of the Selective Gq-Signaling Inhibitor FR900359.

scientific article published in December 2017

Identification of a new inducible nodulation gene in Azorhizobium caulinodans.

scientific article published on September 1992

Identification of nodSUIJ genes in Nod locus 1 of Azorhizobium caulinodans: evidence that nodS encodes a methyltransferase involved in Nod factor modification

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Impact of Plant Peptides on Symbiotic Nodule Development and Functioning

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Innate immunity effectors and virulence factors in symbiosis.

scientific article published on 05 January 2011

Integrated roles of BclA and DD-carboxypeptidase 1 in Bradyrhizobium differentiation within NCR-producing and NCR-lacking root nodules.

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Medicago truncatula DNF2 is a PI-PLC-XD-containing protein required for bacteroid persistence and prevention of nodule early senescence and defense-like reactions

scientific article published on 27 December 2012

Medicago truncatula symbiotic peptide NCR247 contributes to bacteroid differentiation through multiple mechanisms

scientific article published on 25 March 2014

Metabolic Integration of Bacterial Endosymbionts through Antimicrobial Peptides.

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Molecular insights into bacteroid development during Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.

scientific article published on 02 April 2013

Molecular mechanisms of Nod factor diversity ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1997

Morphotype of bacteroids in different legumes correlates with the number and type of symbiotic NCR peptides

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Natural roles of antimicrobial peptides in microbes, plants and animals ⬇️

scientific article published on February 12, 2011

Nod factor requirements for efficient stem and root nodulation of the tropical legume Sesbania rostrata.

scientific article published on May 2000

Nod factors of Azorhizobium caulinodans strain ORS571 can be glycosylated with an arabinosyl group, a fucosyl group, or both.

scientific article published in July 1997

NodS is an S-adenosyl-L-methionine-dependent methyltransferase that methylates chitooligosaccharides deacetylated at the non-reducing end.

scientific article published on July 1995

Nuclear DNA endoreduplication and expression of the mitotic inhibitor Ccs52 associated to determinate and lupinoid nodule organogenesis.

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Partial complementation of Sinorhizobium meliloti bacA mutant phenotypes by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis BacA protein

scientific article published on 16 November 2012

Peptide signalling in the rhizobium–legume symbiosis ⬇️

scientific article published on January 12, 2011

Plant peptides govern terminal differentiation of bacteria in symbiosis.

scientific article published in February 2010

Ploidy-dependent changes in the epigenome of symbiotic cells correlate with specific patterns of gene expression

scientific article published on 12 April 2017

Protection of Sinorhizobium against host cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides is critical for symbiosis.

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Regulation of Differentiation of Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria by Microsymbiont Targeting of Plant Thioredoxin s1.

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Role of antimicrobial peptides in controlling symbiotic bacterial populations

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Role of nodl and nodJ in lipo-chitooligosaccharide secretion in Azorhizobium caulinodans and Escherichia coli

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Seven in absentia proteins affect plant growth and nodulation in Medicago truncatula.

scientific article published on 3 July 2008

Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 bacteroids are not terminally differentiated and show altered O-antigen in nodules of the Inverted Repeat-Lacking Clade legume Glycyrrhiza uralensis.

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

Sinorhizobium meliloti Functions Required for Resistance to Antimicrobial NCR Peptides and Bacteroid Differentiation

scientific article published on 27 July 2021

Specific Host-Responsive Associations Between Medicago truncatula Accessions and Sinorhizobium Strains.

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Structure of ribosome-bound azole-modified peptide phazolicin rationalizes its species-specific mode of bacterial translation inhibition

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

Symbiotic Efficiency of Spherical and Elongated Bacteroids in the Symbiosis

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

The biotroph Agrobacterium tumefaciens thrives in tumors by exploiting a wide spectrum of plant host metabolites

scientific article published on 03 January 2019

The complete genome sequence of Ensifer meliloti strain CCMM B554 (FSM-MA), a highly effective nitrogen-fixing microsymbiont of Medicago truncatula Gaertn

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

The host antimicrobial peptide Bac71-35 binds to bacterial ribosomal proteins and inhibits protein synthesis

scientific article published on 13 November 2014

The nodulation gene nolK of Azorhizobium caulinodans is involved in the formation of GDP-fucose from GDP-mannose

scientific article published in June 1997

The rhizobial type III effector ErnA confers the ability to form nodules in legumes

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

The symbiotic interaction between Azorhizobium caulinodans and Sesbania rostrata molecular cross-talk in a beneficial plant-bacterium interaction.

scientific article published in January 1998

Thioesterase-mediated side chain transesterification generates potent Gq signaling inhibitor FR900359

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

Three unusual modifications, a D-arabinosyl, an N-methyl, and a carbamoyl group, are present on the Nod factors of Azorhizobium caulinodans strain ORS571

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Transcriptome analysis of a bacterially induced basal and hypersensitive response of Medicago truncatula.

scientific article published on 24 May 2009

Transcriptomic dissection of Bradyrhizobium sp. strain ORS285 in symbiosis with Aeschynomene spp. inducing different bacteroid morphotypes with contrasted symbiotic efficiency

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

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