One versus many independent assemblies of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in flowering plants

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 5345 - 13
• Main Authors: Doyle, Jeff J., Ren, Jian, Pawlowski, Katharina, James, Euan K., Gao, Yingzhi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 19.06.2025; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/181/735; 631/449/2669; Bacteria; Crops; Divergence; Fabaceae - genetics; Fabaceae - microbiology; Flowering; Flowering plants; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hypotheses; Legumes; Magnoliophyta; Magnoliopsida - genetics; Magnoliopsida - microbiology; multidisciplinary; Mycorrhizae; Nitrogen; Nitrogen fixation; Nitrogen Fixation - genetics; Nitrogen Fixation - physiology; Nitrogen-fixing bacteria; Nitrogenation; Nodulation; Nodules; Origins; Perspective; Phylogeny; Plant Root Nodulation - genetics; Plant structures; Plants (botany); Root Nodules, Plant - microbiology; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Symbiosis; Symbiosis - physiology

Some species of legumes and nine other flowering plant families form symbioses with bacteria that fix atmospheric nitrogen within specialized plant structures called nodules. How and how often nodulation symbiosis originated has implications for engineering symbiotic nitrogen fixation in non-legume...