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Title Nitrogen-fixing actinorhizal symbioses / edited by Katharina Pawlowski and William E. Newton
Published Dordrecht ; London : Springer, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 310 pages) : illustrations
Series Nitrogen fixation : origins, applications, and research progress ; v. 6
Nitrogen fixation : origins, applications, and research progress ; v. 6
Contents Front Matter; Frankia And Actinorhizal Plants: A Historical Perspective; Polyphasic Taxonomy Of The Genus Frankia; Frankia Ecology; Evolution Of Actinorhizal Host Plants And Frankia Endosymbionts; Oxygen Responses, Hemoglobin, And The Structure And Function Of Vesicles; Early Interactions, Infection And Nodulation In Actinorhizal Symbiosis; Carbon And Nitrogen Metabolism In Actinorhizal Nodules; Ecology Of Actinorhizal Plants; Molecular Biology Of Actinorhizal Symbioses; Comparison Between Actinorhizal And Legume Symbiosis
Summary This book is the self-contained sixth volume of a comprehensive series on nitrogen fixation. It presents the state-of-the-art in regards to actinorhizal symbioses. Like legumes, actinorhizal plants form root nodules that host nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria. However, because the macrosymbionts are, with one exception, woody plants rather than crop plants, actinorhizal symbioses are less well-known than legume symbioses to which they are phylogenetically related. Actinorhizal plants come from eight different families. They can grow on marginal soils by virtue of these symbioses and are used extensively in reforestation, soil reclamation, and desert agroforestry. The diversity of the involved host plants poses a variety of challenges to the actinorhizal symbiosis and results in interesting strategies, for example, to cope with the O2 dilemma or nutrient exchange between plant and bacterium. The actinorhizal micro-symbionts are Gram-positive actinomycetes of the genus Frankia. The inability to culture several actinorhizal microsymbionts has led to the development of diverse molecular strategies for strain identification. This volume includes chapters that deal with all these aspects of the symbiosis and both symbionts plus their ecological role and use. Other chapters tackle the global distribution of different actinorhizal plants and their microsymbionts and how this impacts the question of co-evolution of the micro- and macrosymbionts as well as comparing the actinorhizal and leguminous symbioses. No other book provides the up-to-date and in-depth coverage of this volume, which is intended to serve as an indispensable reference work for academic, governmental, and industrial scientists working in this area, to introduce students to the global importance of this association, and to provide science administrators with ready access to vital relevant information
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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In (MP) Nitrogen fixation: origins, applications and research progress nnam
Subject Actinorhizal plants.
Nitrogen -- Fixation.
Nitrogen-fixing microorganisms.
Symbiosis.
Life sciences.
Nitrogen Fixation
Symbiosis
Biological Science Disciplines
biological sciences.
farming (activity or system)
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Actinorhizal plants
Nitrogen -- Fixation
Nitrogen-fixing microorganisms
Symbiosis
Form Electronic book
Author Pawlowski, K
Newton, William E. (William Edward), 1938-
ISBN 9781402035470
1402035470
9781402035401
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