Phylogenomics reveals multiple losses of nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 361; no. 6398
• Main Authors: Griesmann, Maximilian, Chang, Yue, Liu, Xin, Song, Yue, Haberer, Georg, Crook, Matthew B., Billault-Penneteau, Benjamin, Lauressergues, Dominique, Keller, Jean, Imanishi, Leandro, Roswanjaya, Yuda Purwana, Kohlen, Wouter, Pujic, Petar, Battenberg, Kai, Alloisio, Nicole, Liang, Yuhu, Hilhorst, Henk, Salgado, Marco G., Hocher, Valerie, Gherbi, Hassen, Svistoonoff, Sergio, Doyle, Jeff J., He, Shixu, Xu, Yan, Xu, Shanyun, Qu, Jing, Gao, Qiang, Fang, Xiaodong, Fu, Yuan, Normand, Philippe, Berry, Alison M., Wall, Luis G., Ané, Jean-Michel, Pawlowski, Katharina, Xu, Xun, Yang, Huanming, Spannagl, Manuel, Mayer, Klaus F. X., Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Parniske, Martin, Delaux, Pierre-Marc, Cheng, Shifeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The American Association for the Advancement of Science 13.07.2018; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Subjects: Agricultural economics; Agricultural ecosystems; Agrochemicals; Ammonium; Bacteria; Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; Biodiversity; Biological evolution; Comparative Analysis; Cucurbitaceae; EPS; Evolution, Molecular; Evolutionary genetics; Fabaceae; Fabaceae - classification; Fabaceae - genetics; Fabaceae - microbiology; Fabales; Fagales; Fertilizer application; Fertilizers; Flowering; Flowering plants; Flowers & plants; Food production; Fossil fuels; Gene sequencing; Genes; Genetics; Genome, Plant; Genomes; Genomics; Host plants; Laboratorium voor Moleculaire biologie; Laboratorium voor Plantenfysiologie; Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Laboratory of Plant Physiology; Legumes; Life Sciences; Molecular chains; Nitrogen; Nitrogen - metabolism; Nitrogen Fixation; Nitrogen-fixing bacteria; Nodules; Nutrients; Phylogeny; Plant growth; Plant Physiology; Plant species; Plants (botany); Root nodules; Root Nodules, Plant; Root Nodules, Plant - microbiology; Rosales; Signatures; Species diversity; Symbionts; Symbiosis; Terrestrial ecosystems; Vegetal Biology; växtfysiologi

A symbiosis between certain bacteria and their plant hosts delivers fixed nitrogen to the plants. Griesmann et al. sequenced several plant genomes to analyze why nitrogen-fixing symbiosis is irregularly scattered through the evolutionary tree (see the Perspective by Nagy). Various genomes carried tr...