Sentences with phrase «natural nitrogen fixers»
Green peas act as natural nitrogen fixers, converting the compound into a usable form for organisms.
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Long before the rise of modern agriculture, humans relied on three things to bring nitrogen to barren soils: lightning strikes, nitrogen - fixing bacteria, and natural fertilizers.
In fact, had scientists not created synthetic, mostly natural - gas - based fertilizer decades ago to improve nature's method of «fixing» nitrogen — a process of breaking nitrogen molecules apart to make them available to plants — neither you nor I, nor most of the 7 billion people crowding the planet, would be here today.
Her greenhouse - grown soybean plants fix twice as much nitrogen from the atmosphere as their natural counterparts, grow larger and produce up to 36 percent more seeds.
Lightning strikes can fix nitrogen, some plants have evolved relationships with fungi and bacteria to fix nitrogen or we have been known to add artificial or natural fertilizer.