Sentences with phrase «nitrogen fixation research»
The former President and CEO of the Boyce Thompson Institute and pioneer of nitrogen fixation research passed away August 2 at the age of 82.
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His area of research — nitrogen fixation in legume plants — interested me, and his enthusiasm for his subject was inspiring.
New research shows that as taller shrubs expand into the tundra, nutrients in their leaf litter will either promote or reduce the nitrogen fixation, depending upon which shrub species that will dominate.
Along the way, the research team discovered a novel nitrogen fixation process.
The study was part of the Hawaii Ocean Time - series Program More about nitrogen fixation from the National Research Council
This research, «Robust biological nitrogen fixation in a model grass - bacterial association,» was published in the March 2015 issue of the Plant Journal.
«More than 60 genes involved in various processes of heterocyst formation and nitrogen fixation were assigned to the chromosome based on their similarity to the reported genes,» Kaneko's team writes in Genome Research.
Investigators hope their research will improve the efficiency of nitrogen fixation, make establishment of the symbiosis more reliable under different growing conditions, and extend the host range of nitrogen - fixing symbiotic relationships.