Structure-based phylogenetic analysis reveals multiple events of convergent evolution of cysteine-rich antimicrobial peptides in legume-rhizobium symbiosis
Amira Boukherissa, Siva Sankari, Tatiana Timchenko…·Ricardo C. Rodŕıguez de la Vega
The paper identifies and characterizes NCR peptides in legumes, revealing convergent evolution across clades and functional analogs in symbiosis.