Research into bacteria strains that are both competitive and efficient in nitrogen fixation and developing plants with those ...

Brazil is the world's largest producer of soybeans and one of the reasons is the incorporation of bio-inputs, microorganisms ...

Full of fiber, packed with protein, and great to grow, these have been a staple in the diet of humans for thousands of years.

Plants cannot use nitrogen in this form and can only use nitrogen once it is chemically altered into ammonia. Converting nitrogen gas to ammonia is called nitrogen fixation. Aside from the occasional ...

Introduction: Chickpea (*Cicer arietinum* L.) is an important pulse crop mainly grown in marginal lands around the world. Drought stress highly impacts symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) in chickpeas, ...

Prof. Dhar leads the school of thought which believes that nitrification in soils and nitrogen fixation from the atmosphere are, especially in the tropics, photochemical at least as much as ...

Treating the new soybean crop with an inoculant every year is vital before putting the seed into the soil in North Dakota and ...

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 ...

Lightning can act as a fertilizer via the process of nitrogen fixation. Web Editor : Jessica Patrick Reporter : Chris Michaels. Posted 2025-04-08T10:39:13-0400 - Updated 2025-04-0 ...

It's that time of year when things start greening up more, and it seems to brighten up by the day. I was home Monday as it ...