Pioneering Desmodium spp. are nodulated by natural populations of stress-tolerant alpha- and beta-rhizobia.

The rhizobia-Desmodium (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) symbiosis is generally described by its specificity with alpha-rhizobia, especially with Bradyrhizobium. Our study aimed to isolate rhizobia from root nodules of native D. barbatum, D.