only prokaryotes were known to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. “It’s a very interesting paper,” said Verena Kreichbaumer, a plant cell biologist at Oxford Brookes University who was not involved in ...

Denitrification is important in that it removes fixed nitrogen (i.e., nitrate) from the ecosystem and returns it to the atmosphere in a biologically inert form (N 2). This is particularly ...

Nitrogen is a critical limiting element for plant growth and production. It is a major component of chlorophyll, the most important pigment needed for photosynthesis, as well as amino acids, the ...

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 ...

Just like today, early life on Earth was therefore dependent on nitrogen fixation by microbes. In other words, on their conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen compounds that living ...

This challenge is being tackled by Dr. Craig Wood and his team at CSIRO using advanced synthetic biology and crop biotechnology to create new crops that can fix their own nitrogen for growth.

Research into bacteria strains that are both competitive and efficient in nitrogen fixation and developing plants with those ...

(2017). Reddish colours indicate high-levels of atmospheric fixed nitrogen inputs (e.g., dense invader patches and flushes of N into native vegetation); yellow colours indicate lower levels of ...

It's that time of year when things start greening up more, and it seems to brighten up by the day. I was home Monday as it ...

Whether grown as pulses for grain, as green manure, as pastures or as the tree components of agro-forestry systems, a key value of leguminous crops lies in their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen, ...

Nitrogen emissions into the atmosphere consist mainly of ammonia (NH3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). In 2022, they comprised 121 million kilograms of ammonia (mainly from agriculture) and 162 million ...