Sentences with phrase «of rhizobia»

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But in the wake of recent and unexpected discoveries suggesting that cereals already have the biological machinery to accommodate rhizobia, researchers are keen to give it another shot (see «Evolutionary push could help crops self - fertilise»).

The good news is that beans, peas and other legumes can already pluck nitrogen from air with the help of soil bacteria called rhizobia.

Three options are on the table: tweak cereals so that they form symbiotic partnerships with rhizobia as legumes do; colonise cereal roots with other types of nitrogen - fixing bacteria; or transfer the bacterial genes that make fertiliser directly into the crop plants.

Ober: «Just last month the rhizobia were awarded «Microbe of the Year 2015» because of their growth - promoting properties by the Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM).

During the further course of the study the researchers «infected» the plants with the same rhizobia that occur in the Crotalaria's area of spread.

Rhizobia - hosting plants, mostly in the legume family, recruit rhizobia from the soil to infect their roots, forming specialized nodules of root tissue to house the bacteria and provide them with sugars as a food resource.

Research into the legume - rhizobia relationship will lead to improved yield, elimination of a major fertilizer input, and improved designs for sustainable agriculture.

In a complicated exchange of nutrients, rhizobia produce an abundance of nitrogen, making it available to the plant.

Like other members of the legume family, tamarind roots have a symbiotic relationship with rhizobia, beneficial bacteria that fix nitrogen in the soil.