Tripartite symbiosis of plant-weevil-bacteria is a widespread phenomenon in the Negev Desert

Abstract The weevil Conorhynchus palumbus develops in a mud chamber affixed to the roots of the summer annual plant Salsola inermis in the Negev Desert of Israel. The weevil carries nitrogen fixing bacteria, and evidence suggests that plants with weevils utilize the fixed nitrogen. To characterize t...

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Autores principales: Nitsan Bar-Shmuel, Elena Rogovin, Shimon Rachmilevitch, Ariel-Leib-Leonid Friedman, Oren Shelef, Ishai Hoffmann, Tamir Rosenberg, Adi Behar, Reut Shavit, Fengqun Meng, Michal Segoli
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/1ebc8f8ed4224a8b8184986af4863cef
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