Healthy soil, the foundation of thriving ecosystems, is a complex dance between physical, chemical, and biological processes ...

Some of these nitrogen-fixing bacteria live independently in soils, but others have co-evolved with a select few taxa of higher plants, mostly in the legume family, to form symbioses that support ...

Bacteria that live in soil and help roots fix nitrogen can boost certain plants' capacity to reproduce, according to an article published in the American Journal of Botany describing a study of ...

Most organisms require nitrogen to produce biological molecules, such as nucleotides and amino acids, but until recently, only prokaryotes were known to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. “It’s a very ...

More information: Pablo Moreno-García et al, Long-term nitrogen deposition reduces the diversity of nitrogen-fixing plants, Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp7953 ...

fix nitrogen and produce both hydrogen and building blocks for bioplastics. The researchers were surprised to find that in Rhodospirillum two so-called porins – channel-like proteins that so-far were ...

Bacteria that live in soil and help roots fix nitrogen can boost certain plants' capacity to reproduce, according to an ...

The plant's roots form a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, enriching the soil. After harvesting the seeds ...

the plant invests less in its symbiotic relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, sometimes leading to deficiencies later in the season. Nafziger partly attributes this yield increase to the ...

The Haber-Bosch process revolutionized food production by converting nitrogen into fertilizer, meeting the world's growing ...

Green gram can grow in a wide range of climatic conditions, but it prefers warm and humid weather with a temperature range of ...