Only the plants inoculated with both rhizobium and mycorrhizal fungi were nodulated.
Ederson da Conceição Jesus, Jolimar Antônio Schiavo, Sérgio Miana de Faria 2005, 'Dependência de micorrizas para a nodulação de leguminosas arbóreas tropicais Dependenceon arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for nodulation and growth of tropical woody legumespecies', Revista Árvorehttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-67622005000400006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In as-deposited condition the coatings are amorphous and present a nodulated surface morphology.
Arkadeb Mukhopadhyay, Tapan K. Barman, Prasanta Sahoo 2018, 'Tribological behavior of electroless Ni-B-Mo coatings under dry and lubricated conditionsand corrosion resistance in 3.5% NaCl solution', Jurnal Tribologihttp://jurnaltribologi.mytribos.org/v18/JT-18-108-123.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Plants growing in the field are well nodulated and colonized with mycorrhizal fungi.
Ederson da Conceição Jesus, Jolimar Antônio Schiavo, Sérgio Miana de Faria 2005, 'Dependência de micorrizas para a nodulação de leguminosas arbóreas tropicais Dependenceon arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for nodulation and growth of tropical woody legumespecies', Revista Árvorehttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-67622005000400006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Theoretically this allows for co-speciation between leaf nodulated plants and their endosymbionts.
Benny Lemaire, Peter Vandamme, Vincent Merckx, Erik Smets, Steven Dessein 2011, 'Bacterial leaf symbiosis in angiosperms: host specificity without co-speciation.',PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3168474?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)