MGEs as the MVPs of Partner Quality Variation in Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis

Katy D. Heath; Rebecca T. Batstone; Mario Cerón Romero; John G. McMullen

doi:10.1128/mbio.00888-22

MGEs as the MVPs of Partner Quality Variation in Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis

Katy D. Heath, Rebecca T. Batstone, Mario Cerón Romero, John G. McMullen

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Abstract

Despite decades of research, we are only just beginning to understand the forces maintaining variation in the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between rhizobial bacteria and leguminous plants. In their recent work, Alexandra Weisberg and colleagues use genomics to document the breadth of mobile element diversity that carries the symbiosis genes of Bradyrhizobium in natural populations. Studying rhizobia from the perspective of their mobile genetic elements, which have their own transmission modes and fitness interests, reveals novel mechanisms for the generation and maintenance of diversity in natural populations of these ecologically and economically important mutualisms.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	mBio
Volume	13
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.00888-22
State	Published - Aug 2022

Keywords

ICE
MGEs
evolution
mutualism
plasmid
symbiosis

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Microbiology
Virology

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