Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 50, No. 340 (NOVEMBER 1999), pp. 1701-1708 (8 pages) Two cultivars of Cicer arietinum with differential tolerance to salinity have been compared by analysing ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 56, No. 3 (1980), pp. 379-390 (12 pages) The darkening of lupin plants grown in a sand culture on a nitrogen-free medium at a stage of initial flowering led to a sharply decreased ...

To reconstruct the C. orbicularis symbiont's metabolism, we sequenced the genome of purified bacteria to provide a basis for subsequent global proteomic analyses. As expected, the symbiont's genome ...

Nitrogen is a critical limiting element for plant growth and production. It is a major component of chlorophyll, the most important pigment needed for photosynthesis, as well as amino acids, the key ...

Most organisms require nitrogen to produce biological molecules, such as nucleotides and amino acids, but until recently, only prokaryotes were known to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. “It’s a very ...

Crop yields have increased substantially over the past decades, occurring alongside the increasing use of nitrogen fertilizer. While nitrogen fertilizer benefits crop growth, it has negative effects ...

Nitrogen is essential for all life on Earth. In the global oceans, however, this element is scarce, and nitrogen availability is therefore critical for the growth of marine life. Some bacteria found ...

Of all Earth's elemental cycles, nitrogen may be the most complex and costly. After all, it takes a lot of energy to turn the gaseous coupled nitrogen atoms that make up nearly 80 percent of our ...

Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume ...