Current Issues in Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Advances in the positional cloning of nodulation genes in soybean....Pages 1-7
Molecular analysis of actinorhizal symbiotic systems: Progress to date....Pages 9-20
Diversity of Rhizobia isolated from various Hedysarum species....Pages 21-28
Diazotrophic endophytes: progress and prospects for nitrogen fixation in monocots....Pages 29-38
Drought-avoidant soybean germplasm maintains nitrogen-fixation capacity under water stress....Pages 39-43
Phylogeny and taxonomy of rhizobia....Pages 45-52
Comparison of rhizobitoxine-induced inhibition of β -cystathionase from different bradyrhizobia and soybean genotypes....Pages 53-61
Assimilation of nod gene inducer 14 C-naringenin and the incorporation of labelled carbon atoms into the acyl side chain of a host-specific Nod factor produced by Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae....Pages 63-67
Corresponding 16S rRNA gene segments in Rhizobiaceae and Aeromonas yield discordant phylogenies....Pages 69-74
Rapid evaluation of peat-base legume inoculant using immunomagnetic beads for cell retrieval and fluorescent nucleic acid probes for viability analysis....Pages 75-79
Detection of genetic variation in Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110 variants using DNA fingerprints generated with GC rich arbitrary PCR primers....Pages 81-85
Mimosine produced by the tree-legume Leucaena provides growth advantages to some Rhizobium strains that utilize it as a source of carbon and nitrogen....Pages 87-92
Subnanomolar concentrations of membrane chitolipooligosaccharides from Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii are fully capable of eliciting symbiosis-related responses on white clover....Pages 93-98
Analysis of the two nodulins, sucrose synthase and ENOD2, in transgenic Lotus plants....Pages 99-106
Hopanoid lipids in Bradyrhizobium and other plant-associated bacteria and cloning of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum squalene-hopene cyclase gene....Pages 107-112
Presence of unique repeated insertion sequences in nodulation genes of Rhizobium ‘hedysari’ ....Pages 113-120
Enhanced competitiveness of a Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutant strain improved for nodulation and nitrogen fixation....Pages 121-125
Phage susceptibility and plasmid profile analysis of Sinorhizobium fredii ....Pages 127-134
A diazotrophic bacterial endophyte isolated from stems of Zea mays L. and Zea luxurians Iltis and Doebley....Pages 135-142
Identification of enzymes involved in indole-3-acetic acid degradation....Pages 143-149
Toward a new concept of the evolution of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the Leguminosae....Pages 151-159
Lipopolysaccharide core components of Rhizobium etli reacting with a panel of monoclonal antibodies....Pages 161-166
Diversity in symbiotic specificity of cowpea rhizobia indigenous to Zimbabwean soils....Pages 167-171
Host genetic control of symbiosis in soybean ( Glycine max L.)....Pages 173-187
A comparison of the binding of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Rhizobium meliloti to alfalfa roots, carrot suspension culture cells, and Arabidopsis thaliana root segments....Pages 189-192
Symbiotic effectiveness of marked rhizobial and bradyrhizobial mutants in pea, pigeonpea and mungbean....Pages 193-196
Back Matter....Pages 197-198