Antoine Laurent Lavoisier gave ni. fi. trogen the name" azote," meaning" without life,"
because it dif fered from the other main component of air (oxygen) in being unable to sustain …

RWF Hardy and UD Havelka genetic makeup of bacteria or the grains? Cereals that could
provide their own fertilizer are beyond doubt the biggest prize of all in the gift of the new …

The fixation of nitrogen--the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen to a form that plants can use-
-is fundamental to the productivity of the biosphere and therefore to the ability of the …

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The turn of the millennium from the twentieth to the twenty-first century provides an occasion
to review our understanding of a biological process, biological nitrogen fixation, that is of …

Of the major metabolic processes going on in cells, the two most important in maintaining
the productivity of the earth-photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation-are characteristic of the …

In order to understand a process as complex as nitrogen fixation and to be in a position to
manipulate it for the benefit of mankind, researchers are now working at the frontiers of …

One of the major nutrients needed for the production of food and feed in most of the world is
nitrogen. Indeed, more often than any other element, nitrogen is the nutrient element that …

" Leigh explains how we have arrived at our current understanding of biological nitrogen
fixation through the efforts of generations of dedicated farmers and researchers. Later …

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that all living things depend on a source of utilizable
nitrogen but only some of the smallest members of this community can produce it from the …