An invasive Mimosa in India does not adopt the symbionts of its native relatives

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Authors

Hukam S. Gehlot · Jai Narain Vyas University

Nisha Tak · Jai Narain Vyas University

Muskan Kaushik · Jai Narain Vyas University

Shubhajit Mitra · University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Wen‐Ming Chen · National Kaohsiung Marine University

Nicole Poweleit · University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Dheeren Panwar

Abstract

The native Mimosa spp. in India are not nodulated by the Burkholderia symbionts of their South American relatives, but by a unique group of alpha-rhizobial microsymbionts that are closely related to the 'local' Old World Ensifer symbionts of other mimosoid legumes in north-west India. They appear not to share symbionts with the invasive M. pudica, symbionts of which are mostly beta-rhizobial.

Topics & Keywords

Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis Nematode management and characterization studies Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Life in Land

Publication Details

Published in: Annals of Botany

Volume 112, Issue 1, pp. 179-196

DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct112

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