Biological nitrogen-fixing is a process of great agricultural and ecological interest, given that nitrogen, after water and carbon, is the nutrient that most limits vegetable growth and crop ...

A $1.7 million research grant has been awarded by the National Science Foundation to plant pathology professor Douglas Cook at the University of California, Davis, to fund research on nitrogen ...

A typical day for Jieshun Lin began with a long bus ride to the greenhouses. “For 10 hours each day, I would pull up plants and wash their roots, looking carefully at each individual plant. [Up to] 10 ...

The processes that govern the formation of symbiotic structures between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and legumes in the latter's roots remain largely a mystery to science, but researchers have recently ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If crops could feel envy, it’d be for legumes. Bean plants have a superpower. Or more ...

Seedling plants of 16 legume, forb, and shrub species were compared with 2 alfalfa cultivars (Medicago sativa) for growth and survival in a nitrogen-free sand culture in the greenhouse. All seed ...