Actinorhizal plants
Ana Ribeiro A E , Alison M. Berry B , Katharina Pawlowski C and Patrícia Santos A D
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A ECO-BIO/Tropical Research Institute, Av. da República (EAN), Quinta do Marquês, 2784-505 Oeiras, Portugal.
B Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
C Department of Botany, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
D Department of Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
E Corresponding author. Email: aribeiro@itqb.unl.pt; aribeiro@iict.pt
Functional Plant Biology 38(9) v-vii https://doi.org/10.1071/FPv38n9_FO
Published: 16 August 2011
Abstract
Actinorhizal plants are a group of taxonomically diverse angiosperms with remarkable economic and ecological significance. Most actinorhizal plants are able to thrive under extreme adverse environmental conditions as well as to fix atmospheric nitrogen due to their capacity to establish root nodule symbioses with Frankia bacteria. This special issue of Functional Plant Biology is dedicated to actinorhizal plant research, covering part of the work presented at the 16th International Meeting onFrankia and Actinorhizal Plants, held on 5–8 September 2010, in Oporto, Portugal. The papers (4 reviews and 10 original articles) give an overall picture of the status of actinorhizal plant research and the imposed challenges, covering several aspects of the symbiosis, ecology and molecular tools.
Additional keywords: actinorhizal plants, Frankia, nodulation, root nodule symbioses.
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