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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1983 October; 46(4): 906-911
Copyright © 1983, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Possible Involvement of a Megaplasmid in Nodulation of Soybeans by Fast-Growing Rhizobia from China

Department of Microbiology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

ABSTRACT

Several isolates from a newly described group of fast-growing acid-producing soybean rhizobia, Rhizobium japonicum, were analyzed for plasmid content. All contained from one to four plasmids with molecular weights of 100 x 10⁶ or larger. Although most of the isolates shared plasmids of similar size, the restriction endonuclease (BamHI, EcoRI, and HindIII) patterns of the plasmids from three of the isolates were vastly different. Growth in the presence of acridine orange was effective in producing mutants cured of the largest plasmid in one of the strains. These mutants also lost the ability to form nodules on soybeans. High-temperature curing of a smaller plasmid in another strain did not lead to loss of nodulating ability or alteration of symbiotic effectiveness on soybean cultivars. The identities of all of the isolates and mutants were ascertained by immunofluoresence and immunodiffusion. The new fast-growing strains of R. japonicum may provide a better genetic system for the study of the soybean symbiosis than the slow-growing R. japonicum, not all of which can be shown to contain plasmids.

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