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 ...

The plant's roots form a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, enriching the soil. After harvesting the seeds or leaves, you can turn the spent plants into the soil to release ...

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.

The edited versions boost the activity of a key gene involved in nitrogen fixation, making more of it available to plants. When applied at planting, the bacteria colonize plant roots, delivering ...