Because of the scarcity of suitable carbon and energy sources for these organisms, their contribution to global nitrogen fixation rates is generally considered minor. However, a recent study in ...

MOST of the known reactions of molecular nitrogen take place under drastic conditions, involving high temperatures and pressures or electrical discharges. Only at room temperatures and atmospheric ...

61, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1406-1423 (18 pages) Nitrogen (N) transformations and fluxes at the sediment-water interface (SWI) were measured in Missisquoi Bay, Lake Champlain, to clarify the role of N in ...

Plants need nitrogen to grow, but they can’t just grab it from the air like we do with oxygen. If the soil doesn’t have enough, farmers have to add fertilizers—an expensive and environmentally tricky ...

Still, we have to start somewhere, and this work shows that nitrogen fixation for corn has potential,” Connor Sible, study co-author and research assistant professor at the University of ...

Coale’s proteomic studies revealed that UCYN-A acquired its proteins from B. bigelowii for essential functions like amino acid and pyrimidine biosynthesis and for nitrogen fixation. “Seeing flavodoxin ...

AsRon Calhoun, Senior Portfolio Manager for Plant Nutrition at Nutrien Ag Solutions, explains with its three modes of action—N-Finity is elevating how Loveland Products can further nutrient use ...

A small helper for big tasks: an oxygen sensor protein protects the enzymatic machinery of biological nitrogen fixation from ...

Nitrogen gas (N 2) is one of the most abundant yet highly stable gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Its N≡N triple bond has an extremely high bond dissociation energy (~940.95 kJ mol⁻¹), making ...

This is when bacteria in the soil convert the nitrate back into nitrogen gas which then gets released back into the atmosphere.

Nitrogen gas had only been used in death row executions four times before Jessie Hoffman Jr. was executed in Louisiana on Tuesday. His lawyers tried to argue the method was unconstitutional because it ...