In return, the bacteria fix nitrogen for the plant. Another example of the intricate relationship between the rhizobia and the host legume is the production of leghemoglobin (Appleby 1984).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A research team has discovered how the 'Shethna protein II' protects the nitrogen-fixing enzyme nitrogenase ... serious problems with the transfer to plants is that nitrogenase is extremely ...