Rhizobia, the soil bacteria in question, form a symbiotic relationship with the soybeans to create nodules and fix nitrogen all season long. But sometimes soil might not have enough rhizobia for ...

The plant rhizosphere -microbe relationships that have received the most attention include those of Rhizobia bacteria and their symbiotic plant partners, mychorrhizal fungi associations ...

Farmers growing leguminous crops, the hosts for the nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria, can and should improve nitrogen by inoculating their legume crops with more of the bacteria. Grasslands ...

“Through the biological nitrogen fixation process, rhizobia fix enough nitrogen for the crop’s requirements. It is cheaper than mineral nitrogen fertiliser for the production of the crop ...

When rhizobia infect legume roots, root epidermal cells form infection threads, membranous tube-like structures guiding the bacteria to the inner root tissue where they can fix nitrogen. Rhizobial ...

Stephanie Porter, study's senior author and WSU evolutionary ecologist Soil bacteria called rhizobia are critical to legume plants, including commercial crops like soybean and alfalfa, since they ...