A research team has discovered how the 'Shethna protein II' protects the nitrogen-fixing enzyme nitrogenase from damage. The oxygen sensor protein could help to make nitrogenase usable in ...

Scientists previously regarded phosphorous as the limiting factor for nitrogen fixation because it is an essential component of adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP), the primary source of cellular energy, ...

A new research initiative led by associate professor of bacteriology Betül Kaçar is positioned to transform agriculture and address some of the world’s most pressing ecological and economic challenges ...

Nitrogen is vital for all known life. Yet most nitrogen on Earth is in the atmosphere as di-nitrogen gas, which many organisms can’t use. Fortunately, there are microbes that can tap into this ...

Heterocyst differentiation constitutes a pivotal developmental process in filamentous cyanobacteria, allowing these organisms to sidestep the oxygen sensitivity of the nitrogenase enzyme. Under ...

Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark, in collaboration with Polytechnic University of Madrid, and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France, have found that zinc significantly ...

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 ...