Nodule-Inducing Activity of Synthetic Sinorhizobium meliloti Nodulation Factors and Related Lipo-Chitooligosaccharides on Alfalfa.Importance of the Acyl Chain Structure1

Symbiotic host-specificity of Rhizobium meliloti is determined by a sulphated and acylated glucosamine oligosaccharide signal

1990 • 1,116 citations

RHIZOBIUM LIPO-CHITOOLIGOSACCHARIDE NODULATION FACTORS: Signaling Molecules Mediating Recognition and Morphogenesis

1996 • 940 citations

Calcium Spiking in Plant Root Hairs Responding to Rhizobium Nodulation Signals

1996 • 630 citations

Correlation between ultrastructural differentiation of bacteroids and nitrogen fixation in alfalfa nodules

1990 • 567 citations

A novel highly unsaturated fatty acid moiety of lipo-oligosaccharide signals determines host specificity of Rhizobium

1991 • 533 citations

Rhizobium symbiosis: nod factors in perspective.

1996 • 514 citations

Sulphated lipo-oligosaccharide signals of Rhizobium meliloti elicit root nodule organogenesis in alfalfa

1991 • 497 citations

Depolarization of Alfalfa Root Hair Membrane Potential by Rhizobium meliloti Nod Factors

1992 • 423 citations

Molecular basis of symbiotic host specificity in rhizobium meliloti: nodH and nodPQ genes encode the sulfation of lipo-oligosaccharide signals

1991 • 404 citations

Rhizobium meliloti lipooligosaccharide nodulation factors: different structural requirements for bacterial entry into target root hair cells and induction of plant symbiotic developmental responses.

1994 • 391 citations

Induction of Pre-Infection Thread Structures in the Leguminous Host Plant by Mitogenic Lipo-Oligosaccharides of Rhizobium

1992 • 325 citations

Rhizobium meliloti produces a family of sulfated lipooligosaccharides exhibiting different degrees of plant host specificity.

1992 • 260 citations

Studying Early Nodulin GeneENOD40Expression and Induction by Nodulation Factor and Cytokinin in Transgenic Alfalfa1

1998 • 196 citations

The role of ion fluxes in Nod factor signalling in Medicago sativa

1998 • 194 citations

Alfalfa nodulation in the absence of Rhizobium

1989 • 174 citations

Rhizobium meliloti Nod factors elicit cell‐specific transcription of the ENOD12 gene in transgenic alfalfa

1994 • 170 citations

Structural modifications in Rhizobium meliloti Nod factors influence their stability against hydrolysis by root chitinases

1994 • 152 citations

Structural determination of bacterial nodulation factors involved in the Rhizobium meliloti-alfalfa symbiosis

1991 • 146 citations

Rapid alkalinization in alfalfa root hairs in response to rhizobial lipochitooligosaccharide signals

1996 • 137 citations

Expression of the early nodulin, ENOD40, in soybean roots in response to various lipo‐chitin signal molecules

1996 • 135 citations

The common nodABC genes of Rhizobium meliloti are host-range determinants

1996 • 133 citations

Nod signal‐induced plasma membrane potential changes in alfalfa root hairs are differentially sensitive to structural modifications of the lipochitooligosaccharide

1995 • 129 citations

Legume nodule organogenesis

1998 • 126 citations

Biological Activity ofRhizobiumsp. NGR234 Nod-factors onMacroptilium atropurpureum

1993 • 122 citations

Rhizobium meliloti host range nodH gene determines production of an alfalfa-specific extracellular signal

1988 • 122 citations

Role of the Rhizobium meliloti nodF and nodE genes in the biosynthesis of lipo-oligosaccharidic nodulation factors.

1993 • 121 citations

ThenodHandnodQHost Range Genes ofRhizobium melilotiBehave as Avirulence Genes inR. leguminosarumbv.viciaeand Determine Changes in the Production of Plant-Specific Extracellular Signals

1989 • 115 citations

Characterization of a binding site for chemically synthesized lipo‐oligosaccharidic NodRm factors in particulate fractions prepared from roots

1995 • 102 citations

Biosynthesis of lipooligosaccharide nodulation factors: Rhizobium NodA protein is involved in N-acylation of the chitooligosaccharide backbone.

1994 • 101 citations

Identification of a Rhizobium meliloti pSym2011 region controlling the host specificity of root hair curling and nodulation

1985 • 97 citations

Genetic analysis and cellular localization of the Rhizobium host specificity-determining NodE protein.

1989 • 96 citations

Biosynthesis of Rhizobium meliloti lipooligosaccharide Nod factors: NodA is required for an N-acyltransferase activity.

1994 • 91 citations

Isolation and characterization of cDNA and genomic clones of MsENOD40; transcripts are detected in meristematic cells of alfalfa

1994 • 89 citations

Role of the Differentiation of Root Epidermal Cells in Nod Factor (from Rhizobium meliloti)-Induced Root-Hair Depolarization of Medicago sativa

1995 • 82 citations

Total synthesis of the NodRm-IV factors, the rhizobium nodulation signals

1992 • 82 citations

TheRhizobium-legume symbiosis Two methods to discriminate between nodules and other root-derived structures

1989 • 77 citations

Phaseolus ENOD40 is involved in symbiotic and non-symbiotic organogenetic processes: expression during nodule and lateral root development

1996 • 76 citations

Host Specificity ofRhizobium leguminosarumis Determined by the Hydrophobicity of Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acyl Moieties of the Nodulation Factors

1995 • 72 citations

Chitin oligosaccharides can induce cortical cell division in roots of Vicia sativa when delivered by ballistic microtargeting

1997 • 68 citations

The NodA proteins of Rhizobium meliloti and Rhizobium tropici specify the N‐acylation of Nod factors by different fatty acids

1996 • 67 citations

The Rhizobium meliloti regulatory nodD3 and syrM genes control the synthesis of a particular class of nodulation factors N-acylated by (omega-1)-hydroxylated fatty acids.

1994 • 66 citations

Cooperative Action of Lipo-Chitin Nodulation Signals on the Induction of the Early Nodulin, ENOD2, in Soybean Roots

1996 • 63 citations

Rhizobium nodulation protein NodA is a host-specific determinant of the transfer of fatty acids in Nod factor biosynthesis

1996 • 60 citations

Structural Requirements of Synthetic and Natural Product Lipo-Chitin Oligosaccharides for Induction of Nodule Primordia on Glycine soja

1995 • 56 citations

A central domain of Rhizobium NodE protein mediates host specificity by determining the hydrophobicity of fatty acyl moieties of nodulation factors

1995 • 47 citations

Synthesis of the root nodule-inducing factor NodRm-IV(C16:2,S) of rhizobium meliloti and related compounds

1994 • 37 citations

Structural requirements of Rhizobium chitolipooligosaccharides for uptake and bioactivity in legume roots as revealed by synthetic analogs and fluorescent probes

1997 • 35 citations

Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii produces Lipo-chitin Oligosaccharides with nodE-dependent Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acyl Moieties

1996 • 32 citations

ENOD12Gene Expression as a Molecular Marker for Comparing Rhizobium-Dependent and -Independent Nodulation in Alfalfa

1994 • 31 citations

Total synthesis of NodRm IV (S): a sulfated lipotetrasaccharide symbiotic signal from Rhizobium meliloti

1994 • 31 citations

Total synthesis of the sulfated lipooligosaccharide signal involved in rhizobium meliloti-alfalfa symbiosis

1993 • 26 citations

Reliability of assigning OH ··· O hydrogen bonds to short intermolecular O ··· O separations in cyclodextrin and oligosaccharide crystal structures: Addendum

1995 • 15 citations

Synthetic studies on the lipooligosaccharide Nod Bj-IV (C18:1, Fuc, Gro) produced by Bradyrhizobium japonicum strain USDA61

1995 • 4 citations