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As an adaptation to flooding, few legume species have the original ability to develop nitrogen-fixing nodules on the stem. By surveying wetlands of Madagascar, we found a large occurrence and diversity of stem nodulation in Aeschynomene and Sesbania legumes. They represent opportunities to investigate different modalities of the nitrogen-fixing symbiosis in legumes.
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Manantsoa et al. (2023) studied this question.