This signal attracts the bacteria to the roots, and a very complex series of events then occurs to initiate uptake of the bacteria into the root and trigger the process of nitrogen fixation in ...

biological nitrogen fixation (Vance 2001). The reduction of atmospheric nitrogen is a complex process that requires a large input of energy to proceed (Postgate 1982). The nitrogen molecule is ...

bigelowii for essential functions like amino acid and pyrimidine biosynthesis and for nitrogen fixation. “Seeing flavodoxin in there was really surprising,” Coale said. Flavodoxin is a redox protein ...

Brazil is the world's largest producer of soybeans and one of the reasons is the incorporation of bio-inputs, microorganisms ...

Until recently only a few microorganisms were thought to fix the nitrogen of the atmosphere in the form essential to higher plant and animal life. Now a number of others have been found ...

When organic matter is broken down by soil microbes, the organic N is converted to NH4+ via a process called mineralization ... to plants receiving no supplemental N (Figure 2). Nitrogen fixation by ...

by using green manure or growing legumes to fix nitrogen from the air through the process of biological nitrogen fixation; by micro-dose fertilizer applications, to replenish losses through plant ...