While most vegetation types must extract most of their nutrients from fertile soil, mesquites and similar plants receive additional nitrogen from symbiotic bacteria, which enzymatically fix ...

Associative and symbiotic nitrogen-fixing microorganisms obtain these compounds from their host plants’ rhizospheres (National Research Council 1994, Hubbell & Kidder 2009). Industries use the ...

Some of these nitrogen-fixing bacteria live independently in soils, but others have co-evolved with a select few taxa of higher plants, mostly in the legume family, to form symbioses that support ...

Nutrien’s new N-FINITY technology gives growers flexibility when making on-farm nitrogen management decisions.

Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...

Beneficial relationships between plants and soil microbes play a critical role in agriculture, providing sustainable ...

And, if you’re not interested in plants or Mars, there are some other interesting ramifications of nitrogen-fixing as well.

only prokaryotes were known to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. “It’s a very interesting paper,” said Verena Kreichbaumer, a plant cell biologist at Oxford Brookes University who was not involved in ...

Atmospheric nitrogen must first be converted, or 'fixed,' into a form that can be used by plants, often as ammonia. There are only two ways of fixing nitrogen, one industrial and one biological.

So, how can you tell if your plants are suffering from a nitrogen-deficiency and, if they are, how do you fix it? First, let's start with the major signs of a nitrogen deficiency. Typically ...

For years, attempts have therefore been made to transfer the natural nitrogen fixation in bacteria and ... serious problems with the transfer to plants is that nitrogenase is extremely sensitive ...