Program

Session 5 - Evolution and Engineering of Nitrogen Fixation
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Room America · Chair: Raúl Platero

Tuesday, September 01, 2026

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm

25 Years of Cupriavidus Rhizobia

Flag from Uruguay Raúl Platero
IIBCE

25 Years of Cupriavidus Rhizobia
4:20 pm - 4:40 pm

Nitrogenase-like Catalytic Diversity Beyond Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Evidence for a New Evolutionary Framework

Flag from China Qi Cheng
Hebei Agricultural University

Nitrogenase-like Catalytic Diversity Beyond Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Evidence for a New Evolutionary Framework
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm

Regulatory mechanisms of legume nodule number; VigExp for rapid expression analyses in cowpea

Flag from Australia Brett Ferguson
University of Queensland

Regulatory mechanisms of legume nodule number; VigExp for rapid expression analyses in cowpea
5:00 pm - 5:10 pm

Strain-dependent Bacteroid Differentiation of Mimosa pudica Symbionts

Flag from France Julián A. Rubio-Pulido
LIPME-INRAE / Toulouse

Strain-dependent Bacteroid Differentiation of Mimosa pudica Symbionts
5:10 pm - 5:20 pm

Characterization of the involvement of EPP1 and EPP2 during Nod-independent symbiosis in the legume Aeschynomene evenia

Flag from France Alexandre Ganne
PHIM / IRD, Montpellier

Characterization of the involvement of EPP1 and EPP2 during Nod-independent symbiosis in the legume Aeschynomene evenia
5:20 pm - 5:30 pm

Genomic comparative analysis of promising soybean naturalized rhizobia strains from Uruguay focused on plant growth-promoting genes

Flag from Uruguay Natalia Rodriguez Rodriguez
Udelar — Faculty of Agronomy

Genomic comparative analysis of promising soybean naturalized rhizobia strains from Uruguay focused on plant growth-promoting genes
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