Legumes secretly rely on zinc to manage nitrogen fixation. A new discovery of the zinc sensor FUN could transform crop yields ...

Because free-living rhizobia can reproduce, and may benefit from the increase of plant root exudates stimulated by nodulation, evolution of symbiotic nitrogen fixation may depend upon kin selection.

Rhizobia applied primarily as a seed treatment or occasionally as a liquid in-furrow can have several benefits. The bacteria supports healthy nodulation of soybean roots, improves nitrogen ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 95, No. 3 (1986), pp. 351-359 (9 pages) Seed inoculation with Rhizobium and soil inoculation with Glomus fasciculatum increased nodulation, nitrogen and phosphorus concentration ...

Legumes, unlike most land plants, can form a root nodule symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia. The anatomy of the nodule in legume plants was described in the 17th century, and nodule cells ...

Most scientific research on the root-soil interactions of legumes focuses on rhizobia and nitrogen-fixing root nodules. However, many forms of non-rhizobia bacteria are also detected in these nodules.

New Rhizobia-diatom symbiosis solves long-standing marine mystery A partnership between a diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ...

Experiments carried out in a sand culture have demonstrated that during the growth of Vicia faba and Lupinus luteus inoculated with effective strains of Rhizobium, and when the behaviour of bacteroids ...

News Release 10-Mar-2008 A common genetic mechanism discovered in nitrogen-fixing plants Peer-Reviewed Publication Institut de recherche pour le développement ...

Biosensor reveals gibberellin's critical role in legume nitrogen-fixation -- paving the way for self-fertilizing cereals Date: July 23, 2024 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: Researchers ...

Clark says that up to 60% of the nitrogen used by a soybean crop comes from beneficial rhizobia bacteria. “So making sure you have lots of fresh, live rhizobia there on that seed and in that ...