The concept of soil health refers to specific soil properties and the ability to support and
sustain crop growth and productivity, while maintaining long-term environmental quality. The …

Rhizobial bacteria enter a symbiotic association with leguminous plants, resulting in
differentiated bacteria enclosed in intracellular compartments called symbiosomes within …

To overcome nitrogen deficiencies in the soil, legumes enter symbioses with rhizobial
bacteria that convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonium. Rhizobia are accommodated as …

Despite long-standing observations on diverse cytokinin actions, the discovery path to
cytokinin signaling mechanisms was tortuous. Unyielding to conventional genetic screens …

In the past decade tremendous advances have been made in understanding the
biosynthesis, perception, and signaling pathways of the plant hormone cytokinin. It also …

Roots are important to plants for a wide variety of processes, including nutrient and water
uptake, anchoring and mechanical support, storage functions, and as the major interface …

Cytokinin regulates many important aspects of plant development in aerial and
subterranean organs. The hormone is part of an intrinsic genetic network controlling organ …

The associations between plants and multipurpose plant growth-promoting fungi (PGPF)
have been proven extremely to be beneficial to plants. This review describes new …

The formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules on legumes requires an integration of infection by
rhizobia at the root epidermis and the initiation of cell division in the cortex, several cell …

We used loss-of-function mutants to study three Arabidopsis thaliana sensor histidine
kinases, AHK2, AHK3, and CRE1/AHK4, known to be cytokinin receptors. Mutant seeds had …