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. 1984 Apr;74(4):779–785. doi: 10.1104/pp.74.4.779

Role of Lectins in the Specific Recognition of Rhizobium by Lotononis bainesii1

Ian J Law 1, Barend W Strijdom 1
PMCID: PMC1066767  PMID: 16663509

Abstract

Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled lectin purified from the root of Lotononis bainesii Baker was bound by cells of five out of seven L. bainesii-nodulating strains of Rhizobium under culture conditions. With the exception of a strain of Rhizobium leguminosarum, strains of noninfective rhizobia failed to bind the root lectin under these conditions. The two nonlectin binding L. bainesii-specific strains did not bind root lectin on the L. bainesii rhizoplane although this was observed with three other L. bainesii-nodulating strains. A single Rhizobium japonicum strain bound root lectin on the L. bainesii rhizoplane. There was no evidence of an interaction between the L. bainesii seed lectin and the Rhizobium strains tested.

Root lectin-specific FITC-labeled antibodies were bound to the tips of developing root hairs and lateral growth points of more mature root hairs of L. bainesii seedlings. The damaged edges of severed root hairs always bound FITC-labeled root lectin antibody. Seed lectin-specific FITC-labeled antibodies were not bound to the roots of L. bainesii. The preemergent root hair region of L. bainesii was most susceptible to infection by rhizobia but nodules also emerged in the developing and mature root hair regions. Lectin exposed at growth points on L. bainesii root hairs may provide a favorable site for host plant recognition of infective strains of Rhizobium.

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