Legumes are a large, diverse family ranging from herbaceous annuals to woody perennials that, because of their capacity to fix nitrogen, are essential components in natural and managed terrestrial ecosystems. Legumes have been domesticated for the production of food, feed, forage, fiber, industrial and medicinal compounds, flowers, and other end uses. Understanding the molecular basis of nitrog...

in calcareous soils with high calcium carbonate contents and ph, the growth and development of plant might undergo nutritional disorders. the process of biological nitrogen fixation in legumes cultivated and plant growth in these soils could be limite. the use of acid-producing materials like sulfur and a reduction in soil ph improves plant growth and increase the biological nitrogen fixation. ...

Abstract: Soybean develop new root organs that become nitrogen-fixing nodules in response to signals from rhizobacteria and then use complex systemic signalling to control cell proliferation. Recent application of functional genomics resulted in the characterization of genes encoding Leucine rich repeat (LRR) receptor kinases controlling these early nodulation steps. With short and long distanc...

A novel late nodulin gene, namely NOD3, was isolated from a soybean cDNA library. The expression of NOD3 was induced almost simultaneously with the onset of nitrogen fixation, together with leghaemoglobin. The temporal expression pattern of the gene was studied in developing soybean nodules, by in situ hybridization. NOD3 transcripts were localized in the infected cells of the nodule central ti...

Nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) rates of nodules on intact field-grown soybean (Glycine max) subjected to altered oxygen concentration (0.06-0.4 cubic millimeter per cubic millimeter) returned to initial rates during an 8-hour transitory period. Hydroponically grown soybean plants also displayed a transitory (1-4 hours) response to changes in the rhizosphere oxygen concentration after w...

We studied the effects of liquid nitrogen storage of maize, common bean and soybean seeds on their germination, electrolyte leakage, levels of chlorophylls, phenolics, aldehydes, proteins and peroxidase activity. After storage for 28 days, seeds were retrieved from liquid nitrogen, some were set to germinate and others were analyzed biochemically. No phenotypic modifications were observed visua...

BACKGROUND The present study compared the effects of soybean meal fermented by three different probiotics organisms with non-fermented soybean meal on growth performance, serum parameters, immune chemistry and intestinal morphology in weaned piglets. METHODS One hundred and forty-four 35-day old crossbred (Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire) piglets were randomly allocated into four different dieta...

Nodule development directly affects nitrogen fixation efficiency during soybean growth. Although abundant genome-based information related to nodule development has been released and some studies have reported the molecular mechanisms that regulate nodule development, information on the way nodule genes operate in nodule development at different developmental stages of soybean is limited. In th...

OBJECTIVE This study was to examine in vivo digestibility, nitrogen balance and ruminal fermentation of tamarind (Tamarind indica) kernel powder extract residue (TKPER) compared to soybean products and by-products in wethers. METHODS Four wethers with initial body weight (BW) of 51.6±5.5 kg were assigned in a 4×4 Latin square design to investigate nutritional characteristics of TKPER, dry hea...

Soybean is a legume crop and it may fix efficiently atmospheric nitrogen (N) if an adequate amount of phosphorus (P) is present in the soil. The main product of nitrogen fixation in soybean root nodules is ureides. A greenhouse experiment was conducted on a low soil P silly clay soilsand mixture to evaluate the effect of P application and water regimes in a factorial combination on ureides cont...