Yunxia Chen , Xinhua Zhou

Tropical Legume Research Center, Hainan Institute of Tropical Agricultural Resources
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Molecular Soil Biology, 2024, Vol. 15, No. 6   doi: 10.5376/msb.2024.15.0029
Received: 19 Oct., 2024    Accepted: 25 Nov., 2024    Published: 08 Dec., 2024

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Chen Y.X., and Zhou X.H., 2024, Molecular signals in soybean-rhizobium symbiosis:a focus on nitrogen fixation, Molecular Soil Biology, 15(6): X-X (doi: 10.5376/msb.2024.15.0029)

Soybean (Glycine max) is an important crop in agriculture worldwide. It can help add nitrogen to the soil through biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in cooperation with rhizobia, so it plays a big role in sustainable agriculture. This study mainly talks about the molecular mechanism of cooperation between soybean and rhizobia. The study focuses on some of the important signaling pathways and regulatory molecules. The article also shares people's new understanding of the nitrogen fixation process, such as which genetic and environmental factors affect the activity of nitrogenase, and the role of microbiota. The study summarizes the results, emphasizes the potential of integrating soybean-rhizobium symbiosis into global sustainable agriculture, and outlines future research directions to further optimize this key biological process.

Soybean-rhizobium symbiosis; Nitrogen fixation; GmSK2-8; Nodulation factor; Iron transport