AUR1 and its pals: orchestration of intracellular rhizobia infection in legume for nitrogen fixation

Jawahar Singh; Vishal Varshney; Vishnu Mishra

doi:10.1007/s00299-023-02979-x

AUR1 and its pals: orchestration of intracellular rhizobia infection in legume for nitrogen fixation

Plant Cell Rep. 2023 Mar;42(3):649-653. doi: 10.1007/s00299-023-02979-x. Epub 2023 Jan 21.

Authors

Jawahar Singh^#¹, Vishal Varshney^#², Vishnu Mishra³

Affiliations

¹ Laboratorio de Genomica Funcional de Leguminosas, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 54090, Tlalnepantla, Mexico. jawaharsingh53@gmail.com.
² Govt. Shaheed GendSingh College, Charama, Chhattisgarh, India.
³ Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19713, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We highlight the newly emerged regulatory role of a mitotic kinase AUR1, its activator, and its microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) in infection thread formation for root nodule symbiosis.

Keywords: AUR1; Cell division; Infection thread; Legumes; MAP Kinase.

MeSH terms

Fabaceae* / metabolism
Nitrogen Fixation
Rhizobium*
Root Nodules, Plant / metabolism
Symbiosis
Vegetables