In situ studies on N2 fixation using the acetylene reduction technique.
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In situ studies on N2 fixation using the acetylene reduction technique.
The measurement of in situ N2-fixation rates on the basis of total nitrogen changes or 15N2 uptake is not entirely satisfactory-the former method is insufficiently sensitive and accurate, and the '5N method is time consuming, expensive, and requires a mass spectrometer. The discovery in 1966 by Sch6llhorn and Burris' and by Dilworth2 that the nitrogen-fixing complex (nitrogenase) reduces acetyl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.58.5.2071