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 ...

The major inorganic nutrients entering wetlands are nitrogen and phosphorus. In the wetland, nitrogen and phosphorus are removed from the surface water and transferred to the sediment, wetland plants ...

An oxygen sensor protein protects the enzymatic machinery of biological nitrogen fixation from serious damage ... serious problems with the transfer to plants is that nitrogenase is extremely ...

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.

It’s a problem all earthly life forms must solve: where to get nitrogen? From plants to people, the element is a crucial building block of ... can pluck N2 gas from the air or dissolved N2 in water ...