Essays Tagged: "Rhizobium"

Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria

ies of bacteria, are capable of fixing nitrogen. One of the best- known nitrogen fixing bacteria is Rhizobium. This bacterium lives freely in the soil, and also in the roots of many species of plants, ... umious plants (belonging to the pea family, such as pees, beans, clover, alfalfa and acacia trees). Rhizobium can only fix nitrogen to a very limited extent when living freely in the soil. Most nitrog ...

(4 pages) 24 0 4.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Rhibozum Lab - Chemistry

ugh non biological processes and this may include the use of lightning to trigger nitrogen fixation.Rhizobium also known as Rhizobia is soil bacteria that fix nitrogen once they are stored in the root ... hizobia is soil bacteria that fix nitrogen once they are stored in the root nodules of the legumes. Rhizobium is mostly found in fertilizers, since absorbing nitrogen is one of the hardest process a p ...

(7 pages) 3877 0 0.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Nitrogen Plant Growth

containing 5 legume seedlings. The inoculum added to both Plant 2 and Plant 3 contains the bacteria Rhizobium leguminosarum viceae, R. phaseoli, and Bradyrhizobium. The results we collected, however, ... legumes attract and form a "symbiotic relationship" with certain nitrogen-fixating bacteria such as Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium via specially designed root nodules. Living within the root nodules, th ...

(4 pages) 0 0 0.0 Dec/2013

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry