Soybeans fix nitrogen, everyone knows that, but did you know soil bacteria are key partners in the process? Rhizobia, the soil bacteria in question, form a symbiotic relationship with the soybeans ...

This discovery by John Innes Centre researchers paves the way for more environmentally friendly farming practices ... with nitrogen fixing bacteria called rhizobia and arbuscular mycorrhiza ...

Farmers growing leguminous crops, the hosts for the nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria, can and should improve nitrogen by inoculating their legume crops with more of the bacteria. Grasslands ...

The key to their success is a type of bacteria called rhizobia, which lives inside nodules, or the little nubs you sometimes see on plant roots. While we usually think of bacteria as dangerous ...

It added that sugar beans required 40 to 60 kilogrammes of nitrogen per hectare, while rhizobium bacteria fix 50 to 60 ... or reputable agro-dealers like Farm and City, which purchase from their ...

A Princeton University-based study found that a unique housing arrangement between trees in the legume family and the carbo-loading rhizobia bacteria ... gave tracts of land that were pasture ...

Vanderleyden, J. The Rhizobium-plant symbiosis. Microbiological Reviews 59, 124-142 (1995). Vadakattu, G. & Paterson, J. Free-living bacteria lift soil nitrogen supply. Farming Ahead 169 ...

Farmers growing leguminous crops, the hosts for the nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria, can and should improve nitrogen by inoculating their legume crops with more of the bacteria. Grasslands ...