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  • Symbiosis: Understanding cooperation and conflict in plants

    Aug 4, 2022 10:30 am by Ananya SenResearch
    Medicago truncatula plants in the greenhouse were infected with Sinorhizobium meliloti

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    • Medicago truncatula plants in the greenhouse were infected with Sinorhizobium meliloti

    Do the interests of the symbionts always line up with the hosts plants, or do genes that benefit symbionts come at the expense of the hosts? Researchers investigate this question through genomic sequencing of plants seeded with microbial symbionts.