The plant provides sugars from photosynthesis that are utilized by the nitrogen-fixing microorganism for the energy it needs for nitrogen fixation. In exchange for these carbon sources ...

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

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

For example, nodulation of soybean planted at the Carvel Research and Education Center in Georgetown, DE in 2014 was greatly reduced when fertilized at planting with N (as urea fertilizer) at 100 ...

However, in-depth studies of bean plants are hampered by a problem ... enzyme dedicated to the recycling of adenine in the nitrogen fixation cycle (adenine phosphoribosyl transferase—APRT ...

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 ...

For years, attempts have therefore been made to transfer the natural nitrogen fixation in bacteria and ... serious problems with the transfer to plants is that nitrogenase is extremely sensitive ...

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 ...

“It’s a very interesting paper,” said Verena Kreichbaumer, a plant cell biologist at Oxford Brookes University who was not ... bigelowii for essential functions like amino acid and pyrimidine ...

A recent study from the University of Illinois shows that gene-edited bacteria can supply the equivalent of 35 pounds of nitrogen from the air during early corn growth, which may ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is pushing for the judicious use of nitrogen to prevent soil degradation and nutrient depletion and halt global warming. FAO stressed ...