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(2018) P. Mergaert   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Antimicrobial Activity of NCR Plant Peptides Strongly Depends on the Test Assays

(2018) Attila Farkas et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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(2017) Shengming Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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(2017) Jesús Montiel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Nitrate application or P deficiency induce a decline in Medicago truncatula N2-fixation by similar changes in the nodule transcriptome

(2017) Rebecca Liese et al.   Scientific Reports

Terminal Bacteroid Differentiation Is Associated With Variable Morphological Changes in Legume Species Belonging to the Inverted Repeat-Lacking Clade

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A proteomic atlas of the legume Medicago truncatula and its nitrogen-fixing endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti

(2016) Harald Marx et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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S inorhizobium fredii  HH103 bacteroids are not terminally differentiated and show altered O-antigen in nodules of the Inverted Repeat-Lacking Clade legume G lycyrrhiza uralensis

(2015) Juan C. Crespo-Rivas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Alnus peptides modify membrane porosity and induce the release of nitrogen-rich metabolites from nitrogen-fixing Frankia

(2015) Lorena Carro et al.   ISME Journal

Housing helpful invaders: the evolutionary and molecular architecture underlying plant root-mutualist microbe interactions

(2015) B. Lagunas et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Transcriptomic Analysis ofSinorhizobium melilotiandMedicago truncatulaSymbiosis Using Nitrogen Fixation–Deficient Nodules

(2015) Claus Lang et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Bradyrhizobium BclA Is a Peptide Transporter Required for Bacterial Differentiation in Symbiosis with Aeschynomene Legumes

(2015) Ibtissem Guefrachi et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

The Plant Peptidome: An Expanding Repertoire of Structural Features and Biological Functions

(2015) Patrizia Tavormina et al.   PLANT CELL

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(2015) Pierre Czernic et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Rhizobial peptidase HrrP cleaves host-encoded signaling peptides and mediates symbiotic compatibility

(2015) Paul A. Price et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Loss of the nodule-specific cysteine rich peptide, NCR169, abolishes symbiotic nitrogen fixation in theMedicago truncatula dnf7mutant

(2015) Beatrix Horváth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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(2015) Minsoo Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of nodule-specific cysteine-rich plant peptides in endosymbiotic bacteria

(2015) Hajnalka Durgo et al.   PROTEOMICS

Cell Cycle Control by the Master Regulator CtrA in Sinorhizobium meliloti

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An integrated analysis of plant and bacterial gene expression in symbiotic root nodules using laser-capture microdissection coupled to RNA sequencing

(2014) Brice Roux et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Patterns of divergence of a large family of nodule cysteine-rich peptides in accessions ofMedicago truncatula

(2014) Sumitha Nallu et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Medicago truncatula symbiotic peptide NCR247 contributes to bacteroid differentiation through multiple mechanisms

(2014) A. Farkas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Host plant peptides elicit a transcriptional response to control theSinorhizobium meliloticell cycle during symbiosis

(2014) Jon Penterman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nitrogen-fixing Rhizobium-legume symbiosis: are polyploidy and host peptide-governed symbiont differentiation general principles of endosymbiosis?

(2014) Gergely Maróti et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Transport and Metabolism in Legume-Rhizobia Symbioses

(2013) Michael Udvardi et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Antimicrobial Nodule-Specific Cysteine-Rich Peptides Induce Membrane Depolarization-Associated Changes in the Transcriptome of Sinorhizobium meliloti

(2013) Hilda Tiricz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Structural Analysis of Succinoglycan Oligosaccharides from Sinorhizobium meliloti Strains with Different Host Compatibility Phenotypes

(2013) S. Simsek et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The DivJ, CbrA and PleC system controls DivK phosphorylation and symbiosis inSinorhizobium meliloti

(2013) Francesco Pini et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Speak, friend and enter: signalling systems that promote beneficial symbiotic associations in plants

(2013) Giles E. D. Oldroyd   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

An RNA Sequencing Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Novel Insights into Molecular Aspects of the Nitrate Impact on the Nodule Activity of Medicago truncatula

(2013) R. Cabeza et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Regulatory Patterns of a Large Family of Defensin-Like Genes Expressed in Nodules of Medicago truncatula

(2013) Sumitha Nallu et al.   PLoS One

Rhizobial Plasmids That Cause Impaired Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and Enhanced Host Invasion

(2012) Matthew B. Crook et al.   MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Aphids evolved novel secreted proteins for symbiosis with bacterial endosymbiont

(2012) S. Shigenobu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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(2011) Marta Marchetti et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Caulobacter crescentus chromosome replication origin evolved two classes of weak DnaA binding sites

(2011) James A. Taylor et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

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The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

(2011) Nevin D. Young et al.   NATURE

Regulation of chromosomal replication in Caulobacter crescentus

(2011) Justine Collier   PLASMID

Protection of Sinorhizobium against Host Cysteine-Rich Antimicrobial Peptides Is Critical for Symbiosis

(2011) Andreas F. Haag et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Comparing Symbiotic Efficiency between Swollen versus Nonswollen Rhizobial Bacteroids

(2010) R. Oono et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Plant Peptides Govern Terminal Differentiation of Bacteria in Symbiosis

(2010) W. Van de Velde et al.   SCIENCE

Null mutations inSinorhizobium meliloti exoSandchvIdemonstrate the importance of this two-component regulatory system for symbiosis

(2009) Louise Bélanger et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Plant defensins—Prospects for the biological functions and biotechnological properties

(2009) André de Oliveira Carvalho et al.   PEPTIDES

ASinorhizobium melilotiosmosensory two-component system required for cyclic glucan export and symbiosis

(2008) Joel S. Griffitts et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

EFD Is an ERF Transcription Factor Involved in the Control of Nodule Number and Differentiation in Medicago truncatula

(2008) T. Vernie et al.   PLANT CELL