Claim · model-written summary
Lectin cross-bridging is not an obligatory step in the initiation of infection, though it may occur under some conditions.
- Taxon
- Trifolium repens
Trifolium repenst0 - Outcome
- initiation of infectione1
- Qualifier
- lectin cross-bridginge1
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValue
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Verbatim
t0“Association of Rhizobium Strains with Roots of Trifolium repens”
e1“lectin cross-bridging is not an obligatory step in the initiation of infection”
Title
Association of Rhizobium Strains with Roots of Trifolium repens
Jane Badenoch-Jones; David J. Flanders; Barry G. Rolfe Applied and Environmental Microbiology 1985. doi:10.1128/aem.49.6.1511-1520.1985
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- Observation Bacteria associated with individual clover root hairs varied largely in number.
- Method / resource Reproducibility of results from the radiolabeling method was satisfactory.
- Method / resource The radiolabeling method had a lack of sensitivity and a failure to distinguish attached bacteria compared with direct counting by phase-contrast microscopy.
- Observation The method failed to distinguish between individual bacteria and aggregates.
- Observation Binding of R. trifolii to clover roots showed no indication of specificity.
- Intervention effect 2-Deoxy-d-glucose did not have a major inhibitory effect on rhizobial attachment to the clover root.
- Association The presence or absence of the symbiotic plasmid was not correlated with bacterial adherence to the host plant root.
- Mechanism Binding of rhizobia to the legume root is not the basis of host specificity.