Aeschynomene evenia, a Model Plant for Studying the Molecular Genetics of the Nod-Independent Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosys

Research on the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis has been focused, thus far, on two model legumes, Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus, which use a sophisticated infection process involving infection thread formation. However, in 25% of the legumes, the bacterial entry occurs more simply in an intercellular fashion. Among them, some Aeschynomene spp. are nodulated by photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium spp. that do not produce Nod factors. This interaction is believed to represent a living testimony of the ancestral state of the rhizobium-legume symbiosis. To decipher the mechanisms of this Nod-independent process, we propose Aeschynomene evenia as a model legume because it presents all the characteristics required for genetic and molecular analysis. It is a short-perennial and autogamous species, with a diploid and relatively small genome (2n=20; 460 Mb/1C). A. evenia 'IRFL6945' is nodulated by the well-characterized photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium sp. strain ORS278 and is efficiently transformed by Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Aeschynomene evenia is genetically homozygous but polymorphic accessions were found. A manual hybridization procedure has been set up, allowing directed crosses. Therefore, it should be relatively straightforward to unravel the molecular determinants of the Nod-independent process in A. evenia. This should shed new light on the evolution of rhizobium-legume symbiosis and could have important agronomic implications.

Crop
forages
Number of accessions
21
Creation date
5 March 2012
Published in Genesys
13 October 2023
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Jean-François Arrighi
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Fabienne Cartieaux
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Spencer C Brown
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Marguerite Rodier-Goud
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Marc Boursot
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Joel Fardoux
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Delphine Patrel
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Djamel Gully
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Sandrine Fabre
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Clémence Chaintreuil
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Eric Giraud

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2. 7562Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KEX2F
3. 7571Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KYY01
4. 8223Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KYZA6
5. 8228Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFBG~
6. 8232Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFBT6
7. 8242Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFC7K
8. 8244Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFC8M
9. 8245Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFCBQ
10. 8251Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFCHX
11. 8254Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFCKZ
12. 8258Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFCP$
13. 8261Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFCFV
14. 8426Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KXF8P
15. 8936Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFXMN
16. 8938Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFXPQ
17. 8944Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KFXVW
18. 9539Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • BRA
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KGAW1
19. 18989Aeschynomene evenia • Wild • VEN
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/KQD7X
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/M1FEH
COL003 • DOI: 10.18730/M1GXV