Among semi-aquatic species of the legume genus Aeschynomene, some have the property of being nodulated by photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium lacking the nodABC genes necessary for the synthesis of Nod factors. | A phylogenetic framework of the legume genus Aeschynomene for comparative genetic analysis of the Nod-dependent and Nod-independent symbioses .den color inherit .ttnd ol .ttnd ul .ttnd dl padding 0 0px 0 20px .ttnd hr margin 10px 0px .ttnd a href javascript void 0 .ttnd a href color inherit dtextscript p text-align left dtextscript img vertical-align middle Brottier et al. BMC Plant Biology 2018 18 333 lt br gt https s12870-018-1567-z lt br gt lt br gt lt br gt lt br gt lt br gt RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access lt br gt lt br gt A phylogenetic framework of the legume lt br gt genus Aeschynomene for comparative lt br gt genetic analysis of the Nod-dependent and lt br gt Nod-independent symbioses lt br gt Laurent Brottier1 Clémence Chaintreuil1 Paul Simion2 Céline Scornavacca2 Ronan Rivallan3 4 Pierre Mournet3 4 lt br gt Lionel Moulin5 Gwilym P. Lewis6 Joël Fardoux1 Spencer C. Brown7 Mario Gomez-Pacheco7 Mickaël Bourges7 lt br gt Catherine Hervouet3 4 Mathieu Gueye8 Robin Duponnois1 Heriniaina Ramanankierana9 Herizo Randriambanona9 lt br gt Hervé Vandrot10 Maria Zabaleta11 Maitrayee DasGupta12 Angélique D Hont3 4 Eric Giraud1 lt br gt and Jean-François Arrighi1 lt br gt lt br gt lt br gt Abstract lt br gt Background Among semi-aquatic species of the legume genus Aeschynomene some have the property of being lt br gt nodulated by photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium lacking the nodABC genes necessary for the synthesis of Nod factors. lt br gt Knowledge of the specificities underlying this Nod-independent symbiosis has been gained from the model legume lt br gt Aeschynomene evenia but our understanding remains limited due to the lack of comparative genetics with related taxa lt br gt using a Nod factor-dependent process. To fill this gap we combined different approaches to perform a thorough lt br gt comparative analysis in the genus Aeschynomene. lt br gt Results This study significantly broadened previous taxon sampling including in allied genera in order to .
