Sentences with phrase «known nitrogen fixation»
The biggest customer by a large margin, the colonial bacteria Trichodesmium, accounts for only one - tenth of known nitrogen fixation.
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And it is known that fixation of nitrogen from the air is in the tundra to a high degree performed by cyanobacteria associated with mosses.
Some, however, plow through the night, converting nitrogen from the air into usable nutrients — a process known as nitrogen fixation.
There have been many claims of nitrogen fixation in plants outside nodules where it was known to occur for more than a century.
He is specialized in the ecology and diversity of cyanobacteria, other marine bacteria and microalgae, and known for his work on microbial mats and nitrogen fixation