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Aeschynomene evenia
Shrubby jointvetch (Aeschynomene evenia) is a shrub in the pea and bean family, native to tropical and seasonally dry parts of the Americas including Texas. It is known mainly as a research model for legume-rhizobia root nodule symbiosis, and is seldom grown in gardens.
Aeschynomene evenia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a shrub native to the Americas. This species has emerged as a model organism to study rhizobia symbiosis, since it can interact with photosynthetic Bradyrhizobium species that do not produce Nod factors, and the mode of entry of the bacteria into the plant tissues occurs in an intracellular fashion, in contrast to the infection thread formed by other legumes. Its genome has been sequenced and published in 2021.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aeschynomene evenia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
