Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...

Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

A UCO team has applied the genome editing technique, which garnered a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, to unravel the ...

It has been argued that their global biogeographical distribution reflects the physiologically feasible temperature range at which they can perform nitrogen fixation. In this study we refine this ...

This is when bacteria in the soil convert the nitrate back into nitrogen gas which then gets released back into the atmosphere.

Citation: Protein that protects biological nitrogen fixation from oxidative stress could reduce reliance on synthetic fertilizers (2025, January 15) retrieved 5 February 2025 from https://phys.org ...

This can be achieved through the use of grain legumes, which enhance soil fertility through biological nitrogen fixation, and the application of chemical fertilizers. Whether grown as pulses for grain ...