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		sounds on Feb 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vitamin C is a bug that needs to be patched I've looked around to find more about the N2 fixing bacteria, and found 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 on Feb 26, 2012 [–]

The 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.

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