Researchers demonstrate that the plant hormone gibberellin (GA) is essential for the formation and maturation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules in legumes and can also increase nodule size. Researchers ...

Legumes like clover form root nodules that harbor symbiotic soil microbes known as rhizobia. These nodules are the site of exchange of nutrients that benefit the plants and the rhizobia. CHAMPAIGN, ...

The developmental regulators that confer the identity of N-fixing root nodules belong to a transcription factor family (LSH) more commonly associated with defining the shapes of stems, flowers and ...

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