Nodulation of Tropical Legumes I. Specificity in the Rhizobium Symbiosis of Leucaena leucocephala
- 1 July 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Experimental Agriculture
- Vol. 4 (3), 243-253
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0014479700004257
Abstract
Summary: Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit. failed to nodulate with 94 of the 99 strains of Rhizobium tested, representing the seven recognized cross-inoculation groups of nodule bacteria. A group of legumes including L. leucocephala, Mimosa invisa Mart., M. pudica L., Acacia farnesiana (L.) Willd. and Sesbania spp. showed the properties of a cross-inoculation group of plants. Rhizobia isolated from these legumes were all fast-growers and nodulate L. leucocephala, often effectively, and also many other tropical legumes, including Vigna sinensis (L.) Savi ex Hassk., which are usually nodulated effectively with slow-growing root-nodule bacteria. The taxonomic significance of the results is discussed.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Physical Environment and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation III. Root Temperature Effects on Shoot and Root Development and Nitrogen Distribution In Trifolium SubterraneumAustralian Journal of Biological Sciences, 1966
- Acid production byRhizobium a unifying conceptPlant and Soil, 1965
- ROOT NODULE BACTERIA OF SOME TROPICAL LEGUMINOUS PLANTSSoil Science, 1936
- A STUDY OF RHIZOBIUM SPECIES IN RELATION TO NODULE FORMATION ON THE ROOTS OF FLORIDA LEGUMES, ISoil Science, 1934