where and how iron is transported to the nodule and used for nitrogen fixation is largely unknown. In a new study, published in Nature Communications, researchers used the legume model plant Lotus ...

“Our new model captures nitrogen-fixing heterotrophic bacteria living inside sinking particles, showing how they regulate nitrogen fixation to support growth. The model reveals how these ...

Breakthrough in N2 activation! This study unveils an electron catalysis strategy that directly converts N2 into azo compounds under mild conditions—a game-changer for nitrogen fixation. By harnessing ...

The latest discovery of the genetic regulator that turns off nitrogen fixation when soil nitrate levels are high allowed scientists to remove the gene in model legumes, ensuring they continued to ...

The major transformations of nitrogen are nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification, anammox, and ammonification (Figure 1). The transformation of nitrogen into its many oxidation states ...

a model legume, using insights from the non-nodulating plant Arabidopsis. When they removed the CS in mutant plants, nodules formed more slowly under low nitrogen conditions. But the problem wasn’t a ...

Model simulations suggest that nitrogen availability ... Furthermore, biological nitrogen fixation, reallocation of nitrogen between vegetation and soils, and between labile and recalcitrant ...

bigelowii for essential functions like amino acid and pyrimidine biosynthesis and for nitrogen fixation. “Seeing flavodoxin in there was really surprising,” Coale said. Flavodoxin is a redox protein ...

Nitrogen gas (N 2) is one of the most abundant yet highly stable gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Its N≡N triple bond has an extremely high bond dissociation energy (~940.95 kJ mol⁻¹), making ...