NIN—at the heart of NItrogen-fixing Nodule symbiosis
Lisha Shen, Jian Feng · 2024
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Description
Lisha Shen and Jian Feng review what is known about NIN, a transcription factor at the center of nitrogen-fixing nodule symbiosis, in a review published in 2023. Legumes and actinorhizal plants form root nodules that house bacteria able to turn air-borne nitrogen into ammonia the plant can use. NIN is required for every stage of that partnership, and it is consistently missing from plant species that never form nodules.
The review gathers recent findings on the signals that switch NIN on and on what it controls during nodule formation. The authors also discuss what NIN's history says about how this symbiosis evolved, since the factor appears and disappears alongside the nodulating habit across plant lineages. The piece is a synthesis of recent work rather than a report of new experiments.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lisha Shen, Jian Feng |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |