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SUBMITTER: Path2Models project
PROVIDER: BMID000000140520 | biostudies-other |
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): 24180668
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

Nature 20111116 7378
Legumes (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) are unique among cultivated plants for their ability to carry out endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation with rhizobial bacteria, a process that takes place in a specialized structure known as the nodule. Legumes belong to one of the two main groups of eurosids, the Fabidae, which includes most species capable of endosymbiotic nitrogen fixation. Legumes comprise several evolutionary lineages derived from a common ancestor 60 million years ago (Myr ago). Papilionoids ar ...[more]