PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hines, Pamela
TI  - Stealth Nod Factor Recognition
AID  - 10.1126/scisignal.2004743
DP  - 2013 Sep 24
TA  - Science Signaling
PG  - ec233--ec233
VI  - 6
IP  - 294
4099  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/6/294/ec233.short
4100  - http://stke.sciencemag.org/content/6/294/ec233.full
SO  - Sci. Signal.2013 Sep 24; 6
AB  - Legumes’ symbiotic interaction with nitrogen-fixing bacteria supplies the plant with nitrogen. Many important crop plants, however, cannot establish these symbioses and, thus, agriculture depends on externally applied fertilizers. It was surprising, then, that Liang et al. found that several nonleguminous plants—including Arabidopsis, tomato, and corn—were able to respond to the same Nod factors that initiate the microbial symbiosis in soybean. Y. Liang, Y. Cao, K. Tanaka, S. Thibivilliers, J. Wan, J. Choi, C. h. Kang, J. Qiu, G. Stacey, Nonlegumes respond to rhizobial Nod factors by suppressing the innate immune response. Science 341, 1384–1387 (2013). [Abstract] [Full Text]