Current Issues in Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation

Chapter 1 Advances in the positional cloning of nodulation genes in soybean

Chapter 2 Molecular analysis of actinorhizal symbiotic systems: Progress to date

Chapter 3 Diversity of Rhizobia isolated from various Hedysarum species

Chapter 4 Diazotrophic endophytes: progress and prospects for nitrogen fixation in monocots

Chapter 5 Drought-avoidant soybean germplasm maintains nitrogen-fixation capacity under water stress

Chapter 6 Phylogeny and taxonomy of rhizobia

Chapter 7 Comparison of rhizobitoxine-induced inhibition of β -cystathionase from different bradyrhizobia and soybean genotypes

Chapter 8 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

Chapter 9 Corresponding 16S rRNA gene segments in Rhizobiaceae and Aeromonas yield discordant phylogenies

Chapter 10 Rapid evaluation of peat-base legume inoculant using immunomagnetic beads for cell retrieval and fluorescent nucleic acid probes for viability analysis

Chapter 11 Detection of genetic variation in Bradyrhizobium japonicum USDA 110 variants using DNA fingerprints generated with GC rich arbitrary PCR primers

Chapter 12 Mimosine produced by the tree-legume Leucaena provides growth advantages to some Rhizobium strains that utilize it as a source of carbon and nitrogen

Chapter 13 Subnanomolar concentrations of membrane chitolipooligosaccharides from Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii are fully capable of eliciting symbiosis-related responses on white clover

Chapter 14 Analysis of the two nodulins, sucrose synthase and ENOD2, in transgenic Lotus plants

Chapter 15 Hopanoid lipids in Bradyrhizobium and other plant-associated bacteria and cloning of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum squalene-hopene cyclase gene

Chapter 16 Presence of unique repeated insertion sequences in nodulation genes of Rhizobium ‘hedysari’

Chapter 17 Enhanced competitiveness of a Bradyrhizobium japonicum mutant strain improved for nodulation and nitrogen fixation

Chapter 18 Phage susceptibility and plasmid profile analysis of Sinorhizobium fredii

Chapter 19 A diazotrophic bacterial endophyte isolated from stems of Zea mays L. and Zea luxurians Iltis and Doebley

Chapter 20 Identification of enzymes involved in indole-3-acetic acid degradation

Chapter 21 Toward a new concept of the evolution of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the Leguminosae

Chapter 22 Lipopolysaccharide core components of Rhizobium etli reacting with a panel of monoclonal antibodies

Chapter 23 Diversity in symbiotic specificity of cowpea rhizobia indigenous to Zimbabwean soils

Chapter 24 Host genetic control of symbiosis in soybean ( Glycine max L.)

Chapter 25 A comparison of the binding of Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Rhizobium meliloti to alfalfa roots, carrot suspension culture cells, and Arabidopsis thaliana root segments

Chapter 26 Symbiotic effectiveness of marked rhizobial and bradyrhizobial mutants in pea, pigeonpea and mungbean