Researchers discover how plants distinguish beneficial from harmful microbes
Scientists have discovered that legumes use small, well-defined motifs in LysM receptors to read signals produced by both pathogenic and symbiotic microbes. - Credit: Christina Krönauer and Damiano Lironi, Aarhus UniversityLegume plants fix atmospheric nitrogen with the help of symbiotic bacteria, called Rhizobia, which colonize their roots. Therefore, plants have to be able to precisely rec...