Concern over the depletion of world energy resources and the increase in the cost of
nitrogen fertilizer has prompted considerable interest and research in biological nitrogen …

Introduction. The enzymology of nitrogenasc.(a) Hinary and mctalloprotein character (b)
Oxygen sensitivity and physiological protection (0) Substrate specificity.(d) Electron …

Chemical fertilizers have had a significant impact on food production in the recent past, and
are today an indispensable part of modern agriculture. On the other hand, the oil crisis of the …

Nitrogen (N), one of the main building blocks of protein, is ultimately derived from soil and
atmosphere through plant or microbial assimilation of this element. Enormous reserves of N …

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A special meeting of the Royal Society in London in 1986 marked the centenary of the first
demonstration of nitrogen fixation. Currently the subject is of great practical importance …

Energy is expended by microbes to fix nitrogen at efficiencies between 0.3% and 16%. A
variety of metabolic, evolutionary, and other reasons fix the energy “budgets” for biofixation …

Priority of discovery in science has always been difficult to assess, and the field of
asymbiotic nitrogen fixation is no exception. Although most textbooks confidently state that …