Complete genome of Rhizobium leguminosarum Norway, an ineffective Lotus micro-symbiont

Liang, Juan; Hoffrichter, Anne; Brachmann, Andreas und Marín, Macarena (2018): Complete genome of Rhizobium leguminosarum Norway, an ineffective Lotus micro-symbiont. In: Standards in Genomic Sciences 13:36: S. 1-11

Abstract

Rhizobia bacteria engage in nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis, a mutualistic interaction with legume plants in which a bidirectional nutrient exchange takes place. Occasionally, this interaction is suboptimal resulting in the formation of ineffective nodules in which little or no atmospheric nitrogen fixation occurs. Rhizobium leguminosarum Norway induces ineffective nodules in a wide range of Lotus hosts. To investigate the basis of this phenotype, we sequenced the complete genome of Rl Norway and compared it to the genome of the closely related strain R. leguminosarum bv. viciae 3841. The genome comprises 7,788,085bp, distributed on a circular chromosome containing 63% of the genomic information and five large circular plasmids. The functionally classified bacterial gene set is distributed evenly among all replicons. All symbiotic genes (nod, fix, nif) are located on the pRLN3 plasmid. Whole genome comparisons revealed differences in the metabolic repertoire and in protein secretion systems, but not in classical symbiotic genes.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Keywords: Symbiosis; Rhizobium; Legume; Ineffective nodulation; Genome
• Fakultät: Biologie > Department Biologie I
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
• ISSN: 1944-3277
• Sprache: Englisch