Groups of 16 pregnant rats per treatment were fed ad libitum a basal diet containing 0, 0.3, 0.5, or 0.7% mimosine or allowed a restricted intake of the diet with no mimosine until killed on day 20 of gestation.
Bacterial strains. Some Rhizobium isolates were obtained
from the NifTAL Project, Maui, Hawaii. A further 32 isolates
were obtained from Leucaena nodules collected from different
parts of the island of Oahu, Hawaii