The interaction between legumes and rhizobia has been well studied in the context of a mutualistic, nitrogen-fixing symbiosis. The fitness of legumes, including important agricultural crops, is enhanced by the plants' ability to develop symbiotic associations with certain soil bacteria that fix atmospheric nitrogen into a utilizable form, namely, ammonia, via a chemical reaction that only bacte...

Plant-associated bacteria are important for the growth and health of their host, but little is known about its functional diversity and impact on ecosystem functioning. We studied bacterial nitrogen fixation and methane oxidation from indicator Sphagnum mosses in Alpine bogs to test a hypothesis that the plant microbiome contained different functional patterns depending on their functions withi...

Anthropogenic changes can influence mutualism evolution; however, the genomic regions underpinning mutualism that are most affected by environmental change are generally unknown, even in well-studied model mutualisms like the interaction between legumes and their nitrogen (N)-fixing rhizobia. Such genomic information can shed light on the agents and targets of selection maintaining cooperation ...

Paraburkholderia tropica (syn Burkholderia tropica) are nitrogen-fixing bacteria commonly found in sugarcane. The Paraburkholderia tropica strain Ppe8 is part of the sugarcane inoculant consortium that has a beneficial effect on yield. Here, we report a draft genome sequence of this strain elucidating the mechanisms involved in its interaction mainly with Poaceae. A genome size of approximately...

Liwa Botanical Gardens is an ex-situ conservation area for various types of plants. Each plant produces organic matter that will provide nutrients the growth nitrogen-fixing bacteria. This indicates existence environment supports Nitrogen one needed by plants their growth. However, abundance nitrogen in atmosphere cannot be utilized directly but needs to transform into ammonium and nitrate firs...

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is a process in which the atmospheric nitrogen (N2) is transformed into ammonia (NH3) by a select group of nitrogen-fixing organisms, or diazotrophic bacteria. In order to furnish the biologically useful nitrogen to plants, these bacteria must be in constant molecular communication with their host plants. Some of these molecular plant-microbe interactions are ...

Field research was conducted in Poland from 2019–2021 to determine the effect of bacteria Azospirillumlipoferum Br17 and Azotobacter chroococcum, as well companion red clover on total protein content yield grain spring barley cultivated a system organic agriculture. Two factors were examined field experiment: I. bacterial formulations: 1—control, 2—nitrogen-fixing (Azospirillumlipoferum Br17, c...

The effect of nitrogen source on methane-oxidizing bacteria with respect to cellular growth and trichloroethylene (TCE) degradation ability were examined. One mixed chemostat culture and two pure type II methane-oxidizing strains, Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b and strain CAC-2, which was isolated from the chemostat culture, were used in this study. All cultures were able to grow with each of ...

Clues to the mechanism of biological nitrogen fixation have been sought through experiments aimed at defining the substances specifically required by organisms to effect the process. The nitrogen-fixing sequence in bacteria is known to proceed through ammonia (Zelitch et al., 1951; Newton et al., 1953; Wilson and Burris, 1953; Virtanen, 1953). Thus, the effect of adding ammonium salts to a fixi...