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I've looked around to find more about the N2 fixing bacteria, and found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizobia#Nodule_formation_and_functioning http://en.wikiped
by sounds 15y ago
I've looked around to find more about the N2 fixing bacteria, and found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizobia#Nodule_formation_and_functioning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizobia#Nodule_formation_and_f... - but no definitive treatment.
If you have a chance, can you please point an interested reader to more info?
- ars 15y agoThe second paragraph in the section you linked to discusses how the plant punishes cheaters. I don't think there is a definitive treatment. There are lots of experiments and many possible mechanisms that have been discovered or proposed, and probably all are used by the plant.