What does nitrogen do for plants? Read on to learn how to improve the health of your plants and how to add nitrogen to soil by fixing the nitrogen cycle in your garden. This article is also in audio ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 189, No. 2 (February (II) 1997), pp. 205-211 (7 pages) A brackish-water, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium, Anabaena torulosa, could successfully grow and fix nitrogen on moderately ...

They still need further testing in order to confirm this conclusion. Researchers make disturbing discovery after examining ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have developed the same function independently on at least three separate occasions ...

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Researchers have completed the genome sequence of Azotobacter vinelandii, uncovering important genetic information that will contribute to a more complete understanding of the biology of this ...

Researchers have good news for growers. Farmers raising a nitrogen-hungry crop like sweet corn may save up to half of their nitrogen fertilizer cost. The key: using a faba bean cover crop. Faba bean ...

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A $1.7 million research grant has been awarded by the National Science Foundation to plant pathology professor Douglas Cook at the University of California, Davis, to fund research on nitrogen ...