Conferring symbiotic root nodule organ identity. The accommodation of nitrogen fixing bacteria is endosymbiotic, inside specialised cells in the root nodule and requires three key processes: 1) ...

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.

Root nodule symbiosis enables legumes to grow under nitrogen-limiting conditions where most of non-leguminous plants cannot survive. Researchers in Japan now have a better understanding of how ...

Root nodule symbioses with nitrogen-fixing bacteria provide many plants with a source of nitrogen. This study uncovers evidence that changes in the gene SYMRK were involved in the evolution of ...

These root nodules help the plant gain nitrogen, one of the three main macronutrients plants need (N (nitrogen), P (phosphorous) and K (potassium)). Most nitrogen is part of the atmosphere. In fact ...

Question: I can grow beans by the bushel up North, but my garden in Florida produces handfuls of runty beans on stunted yellow plants. When I pull them up, the roots have hundreds of nodules.

However, the uncontrolled formation of numerous root nodules can impede root function. To prevent this, legumes need to regulate the distribution and number of root nodules, but the precise ...

Dr Drapek said: "Right at the beginning of nodule formation you start to see an accumulation of GA in the nodule primordia, but very little GA anywhere else in the root. As the root nodule further ...

THE red pigment in the root nodules of a leguminous plant (Vicia Faba) was investigated for the first time by Pietz1. He believed it to be identical with the red intermediate product which appears ...

Human dorsal root ganglia in a case of diabetic peripheral neuropathy show formation of Nageotte nodules (circled in pink), which appear to be a strong indicator of nerve cell death.(University of ...