Intercropping creates a living web of soil-building and nutrient-exchange underground. When legumes fix nitrogen, root ...

Legumes like beans, peas and lentils are unique among crops for their ability to interact with soil bacteria to convert or ...

In return, the bacteria fix nitrogen for the plant. Another example of the intricate relationship between the rhizobia and the host legume is the production of leghemoglobin (Appleby 1984).

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is a deep-rooted perennial legume that is highly effective at fixing nitrogen. It's often grown as ...

While most vegetation types must extract most of their nutrients from fertile soil, mesquites and similar plants receive additional nitrogen from symbiotic bacteria, which enzymatically fix ...

Red gram and other legumes as hosts benefit with the ... which can impact the efficiency of the nodule in fixing atmospheric nitrogen. They found the presence of non-rhizobial bacterial endophytes ...