Root nodules are organs on plant roots that facilitate the symbiotic relationship. Rhizobia colonize these nodules and fix nitrogen by converting nitrogen from air into ammonia. Iron is needed for ...

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

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 ...

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