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Certain plants, like legumes, are nitrogen-fixing which means they give back to the earth what other crops depleted. Plant these superheroes in your garden.

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Nitrogen-Fixing Nodules Evolved More Than Once in Plants 4mo Feeding the world's expanding population is made possible by ...

Many nitrogen-fixing microbes could provide additional benefits to plants beyond nitrogen fixation, including promoting growth and stress tolerance. The authors say that future research should ...

J.R. Doby et al., “Aridity drives phylogenetic diversity and species richness patterns of nitrogen-fixing plants in North America,” Glob Ecol Biogeogr, 31:1630–42, 2022. New Gene Mutants Identified in ...

MSU global plant study: Loss of ‘nitrogen fixers’ threatens biodiversity, ecosystems . Contact: Sarah Nicholas STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University is part of a European-American ...

Plants that fix nitrogen, such as legumes, do so by harboring symbiotic bacteria in root nodules. But a recent discovery upends that rule. In two recent papers, an international team of scientists ...

All the latest science news on nitrogen-fixing bacteria from Phys.org. Find the latest news, advancements, and breakthroughs.

Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...