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Towards the minimal nitrogen‐fixing symbiotic genome
Author(s) -
Sanjuán Juan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
environmental microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.954
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1462-2920
pISSN - 1462-2912
DOI - 10.1111/1462-2920.13261
Subject(s) - biology , nitrogen fixation , genome , symbiosis , rhizobium , function (biology) , computational biology , genetics , nitrogen , evolutionary biology , gene , bacteria , physics , quantum mechanics
Summary diCenzo and coworkers have reverse engineered a rhizobium into a non‐nitrogen fixer, creating a genomic platform for gain‐of‐function genetics studies, which should aid to identify the minimal nitrogen fixing symbiotic genome.