Scientists have identified two putative plant transcription factors that are essential links in the symbiosis of rhizobial bacteria and legumes, according to two reports in this week's Science. The ...

As Diana Six explains, mutualistic relationships will be affected particularly severely. Climate change will profoundly transform our biosphere. However, we have little ability to predict how the ...

WHEN a legume root is infected by the nodule organism ... In lucerne and clover, the bacteria are at first enclosed in infection threads, and it can be seen in young nodules that the stimulation ...