A research team from Utah State University, Virginia Tech, and Northwestern University asked whether the biological process for nitrogen fixation, carried out by microbes that contain the enzyme ...

Scientists previously regarded phosphorous as the limiting factor for nitrogen fixation because it is an essential component of adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP), the primary source of cellular energy, ...

Research published in the journal Nature reveals how UK and US scientists have managed to trigger nodulation in legumes, a key element of the nitrogen fixing process, without the bacteria normally ...

Scientists at the John Innes Centre have discovered an important component in the process of nitrogen fixation in plants. They have identified a key protein that facilitates the movement of calcium in ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If crops could feel envy, it’d be for legumes. Bean plants have a superpower. Or more ...