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  • The functions of a small family of non-secreted peptides, originally identified as critical communicators of the plant’s iron status, have expanded. The involvement of these effectors in disparate signalling cascades underlines the pivotal role peptides have in responses to the environment.

    • Isabel Cristina Vélez-Bermúdez
    • Wolfgang Schmidt
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    P: 1-3

  • Philip Poole narrates his career story and his motivations for studying rhizobia, the agriculturally important bacterial plant symbiont responsible for fixing nitrogen.

    • Philip Poole
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Microbiology
    Volume: 9, P: 314-315

  • This study uncovers a new signalling mechanism by which rhizobial bacteria regulate root nodulation in legumes.

    • Ashley York
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 17, P: 646

    • Guillaume Tena
    Research Highlights
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 4, P: 982

  • Single-nucleus transcriptomic analysis of Medicago roots reveals dynamic cell-specific responses to the Nod factor — a bacterially secreted chito-lipopolysaccharide with a key role in the root nodule symbiosis between legumes and rhizobia — and identifies the receptor-like kinase FERONIA as a phosphorylation target of the Nod factor receptor LYK3, which together function to control nodule formation and bacterial infection.

    • María Eugenia Zanetti
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 9, P: 1581-1582

  • Experimental evolution of symbiotic behaviour in the root-infecting pathogenRalstonia solanacearum.

    • Andrew Jermy
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 8, P: 157

  • Transcriptomics of nitrogen-fixing plants and their symbionts reveals the origins of root-nodulating symbiosis and how it has endured more in some groups than others

    • Euan K. James
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 9, P: 1008-1009

  • Various clades of legume plants irreversibly modify the development of their symbiotic nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. Key transcription factors controlling this process have been identified. They are conserved and functional even in plant species that do not induce such a terminal differentiation.

    • Benjamin Gourion
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 9, P: 199-200

  • Duplication of KCBP, which encodes a plant-specific microtubule-based kinesin motor, occurs solely in legumes of the clade that form symbiosomes. The nodule-enriched KCBP (nKCBP) is co-opted by rhizobia to control central vacuole morphogenesis in symbiotic cells, thus achieving symbiosome development and nitrogen fixation.

    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 8, P: 1218-1219

  • The coupling of root nutrient exudation by plants with microbial nutrient utilization preferences helps drive the assembly of rhizosphere microbiomes, enabling the use of metabolite interaction traits to engineer favourable microbial communities on roots.

    • Gwyn A. Beattie
    News & Views
    Nature Microbiology
    Volume: 3, P: 396-397

  • The fields of ecology and evolutionary biology are implicitly connected. A new theory that links the global distribution and evolution of nitrogen-fixing trees uses the universal language of mathematics to make this connection more explicit.

    • Benjamin Z. Houlton
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 1, P: 1-2