Nature Communications (May 2020)

Genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of the symbiosis between a leguminous plant and a nitrogen-fixing bacterium

  • George C. diCenzo,
  • Michelangelo Tesi,
  • Thomas Pfau,
  • Alessio Mengoni,
  • Marco Fondi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16484-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The association between leguminous plants and rhizobial bacteria is a paradigmatic example of a symbiosis driven by metabolic exchanges. Here, diCenzo et al. report the reconstruction and modelling of a genome-scale metabolic network of the plant Medicago truncatula nodulated by the bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti.