Sentences with word «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.

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

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»).

For years, scientists have tried to increase the rate of nitrogen fixation in legumes by altering rhizobia bacterioid function or interactions that take place between the bacterioid and the root nodule cells.

Unlike crops that rely on naturally occurring and artificially made nitrogen from the soil, legumes contain rhizobia bacterioids in their root nodules that have the unique capability of converting or «fixing» nitrogen gas from the atmosphere.

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.

Excellent genomic resources for M. truncatula have allowed identification of genes that important for the symbiosis, and some of these genes show signs of local adaptation to different populations of rhizobia.

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.

At PBE2018 Simona Radutoiu will give a talk on: «Lotus japonicus and rhizobia interactions; from simple to complex associations»

Others, such as nitrogen - fixing legumes, benefit from symbiotic relationships with rhizobia that create ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen.

This initiated a feedback loop that caused the rhizobia to start fixing more atmospheric nitrogen, which the plant then used to produce more seeds.

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).

Tegeder took a different approach: She increased the number of proteins that help move nitrogen from the rhizobia bacteria to the plant's leaves, seed - producing organs and other areas where it is needed.

Three teenagers took the top prize at the Google Science Fair for boosting barley yields with rhizobia — something adults said couldn't be done.

This is a starting point to study the role these M. truncatula genes — which have adapted to different environments in space — will play in the adaptation of populations over time, as they coevolve with rhizobia and cope with changing climate.

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

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