Hopanoids confer robustness to physicochemical variability in the niche of the plant symbiont Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens
E. M. Tookmanian, L. Junghans, G. Kulkarni, R. Ledermann, J. P. Saenz, D. K. Newman
This study shows that hopanoids in Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens provide robustness to environmental variability in soil, explaining discrepancies between in vitro and in planta results.
bioRxiv · Aug 31, 2021Microbiology