Nodules on the roots of peas and beans help the plant to secure its own nitrogen, reducing the need for artificial fertiliser. Professor Giles Oldroyd's group is researching how this could be ...

Root knot nematode, as the name implies, attacks the roots of soybean. Affected root systems contain irregular, large growths, called galls. Galls can be distinguished from beneficial nitrogen fixing ...

IN addition to the red pigment, hæmoglobin,· we have always found in leguminous root nodules a brown pigment. This is methæmoglobin with trivalent iron1. The simplest way of demonstrating its ...

beans and pulses, can obtain their own nitrogen through a natural symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, forming lateral root-derived organs called nodules. This nitrogen-fixing ...