“…An ethylene‐insensitive mutant of M. truncatula , Mtein2 (formerly called sickle ), has a hypernodulation phenotype (Penmetsa et al, ; Penmetsa & Cook, ). Likewise, simultaneous suppression of the two L. japonicus homologues, LjEIN2‐1 and LjEIN2‐2 , causes hypernodulation (Miyata, Kawaguchi, & Nakagawa, ), as does a mutation in the ethylene binding domain of the membrane‐localized ethylene receptor, LjETR1 (Miyata & Nakagawa, ). LjEIN2a (i.e., LjEIN2‐2 ) single mutants exhibit a classical ethylene insensitive phenotype but not hypernodulation due to redundancy with LjEIN2b (i.e., LjEIN2‐1 ; Desbrosses & Stougaard, ; Chan, Biswas, & Gresshoff, ).…”