Exopolysaccharides of Rhizobium: Synthesis, Regulation and Symbiotic Function

Overview

Journal Trends Genet

Specialty Genetics

Date 1994 Feb 1

PMID 8191588

Citations 38

Authors

J A Leigh

G C Walker

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Abstract

Exopolysaccharides of Rhizobium have long been suspected, and are now known, to function in the Rhizobium-legume root nodule symbiosis. Recent studies have enhanced our knowledge of these extracellular polymers as symbiotic signals and have elucidated their biosynthesis and regulation.

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