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The effect of rhizobiophages on Sinorhizobium meliloti - Medicago sativa symbiosis

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Using Tn5 mutagenesis of lysogenic Sinorhizobium meliloti strain L5–30 (φL54), three neomycin-resistant transconjugants differing in phage-resistance profiles were isolated. Two of them increased the dry weight of plants and were capable of establishing root nodules, whereas the third one was ineffective. The bacterium-phage interaction did not have observable consequences in the Medicago sativa - S. meliloti symbiosis because it did not affect the number of nodules on M. sativa or plant dry weight.

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  1. Department of General Microbiology, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka St., 20-033, Lublin, Poland

    Mieczysław Kowalski, Wanda Małek, Jadwiga Czopska-Dolecka & Małgorzata Szlachetka

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Kowalski, M., Małek, W., Czopska-Dolecka, J. et al. The effect of rhizobiophages on Sinorhizobium meliloti - Medicago sativa symbiosis. Biol Fertil Soils 39, 292–294 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-004-0721-y

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