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Legume plants are able to form a root endosymbiosis with some soil bacteria collectively called rhizobia. This interaction between legumes and rhizobia is highly specific and depends on the recognition by the plant of molecules produced by the rhizobia, called Nod Factors (NF). Hence, precise NF structures are required depending on the host plant. These data provide new information about NFP structure and on the mechanisms of NF recognition in the different steps of symbiosis in M. truncatula.

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