Recognition of Oligochitin Fragments in Legume Plants.

Growth effects of Rhizobium inoculation in some legume plants

Leguminous crops, possessing root nodules, fix and utilize atmospheric nitrogen. They are thus not dependent on industrially fixed nitrogen but add up to 30 kg of nitrogen / hectare to the soil and improve its fertility. Access to mineral nitrogen often limits plant growth, and so symbiotic relationships have evolved between plants and a variety of nitrogen-fixing organisms. These associations ...

Herbicide Phytotoxicity and Resistance to Herbicides in Legume Plants

Legume Plants Enhance the Resistance of Soil to Ecosystem Disturbance

Cultivation of legume plants is well known to improve soil N level and net primary productivity; besides, it may deliver other ecosystem benefits such as increasing soil carbon sequestration and soil food web complexity. However, little is known about whether legumes can improve the resistance of soils to ecosystem disturbances. In the present study, we compared the resistance of soils to an ec...

Kin recognition in plants?

Root Colonization of Root and Nodule Endophytic Bacteria in Legume and Non Legume Plants Grown in Liquid Medium

Endophytes have a symbiotic relationship with the different parts of plants and could play a very important role in supporting the plant growth. In present study, 11 most efficient isolates were selected out of more than 200 endophytic bacteria isolated previously from roots of chickpea (Cicer arietinum), field pea (Pisum sativum), Lucerne (Medicago sativa), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and oat (A...