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Apr 24, 2020 · The process is called “nitrogen fixation.” On land, bacteria in soil do the heavy lifting by converting N 2 into organic nutrients like ammonium (NH 4 +) and nitrate (NO 3 –) that are usable by plants. In the ocean, blue-green cyanobacteria are the most abundant type of bacteria to fix nitrogen.
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May 9, 2024 · Oceanic N2 fixation is almost exclusively attributed to cyanobacteria, even though genes encoding nitrogenase, the enzyme fixing N2 into ammonia, are widespread among marine bacteria and...
Apr 11, 2024 · One such bacteria, dubbed UCYN-A, is widely distributed in the world’s oceans and is important to oceanic nitrogen fixation, says marine ecologist Jonathan Zehr of the University of California,...
Apr 25, 2024 · Two kinds of nitrogen-fixing bacteria are recognized. The first kind, the free-living (nonsymbiotic) bacteria, includes the cyanobacteria (or blue-green algae) Anabaena and Nostoc and genera such as Azotobacter , Beijerinckia , and Clostridium .
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- What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?Nitrogen-fixing bacteria are prokaryotic microorganisms that are capable of transforming nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into “fixed nitrogen” com...
- Why are nitrogen-fixing bacteria important?Nitrogen is a component of proteins and nucleic acids and is essential to life on Earth. Although nitrogen is abundant in the atmosphere, most orga...
- Where do nitrogen-fixing bacteria live?There are two main types of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Symbiotic, or mutualistic, species live in root nodules of certain plants. Plants of the pea...
- What are some examples of nitrogen-fixing bacteria?Examples of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria include Rhizobium, which is associated with plants in the pea family, and various Azospirillum speci...
Jun 11, 2018 · Nitrogen fixation in the surface ocean impacts global marine nitrogen bioavailability and thus microbial primary productivity. Until now, cyanobacterial populations have been viewed as the...
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May 15, 2020 · BACKGROUND. Biological dinitrogen (N 2) fixation, the reduction of atmospheric N 2 to ammonia, is important for maintaining the fertility of the oceans by providing biologically useful nitrogen to support primary organic matter production (i.e., carbon dioxide fixation).
Oceanic N 2 fixation is almost exclusively attributed to cyanobacteria, even though genes encoding nitrogenase, the enzyme fixing N 2 into ammonia, are widespread among marine bacteria and archaea 3-5. Little is known about these non-cyanobacterial N 2 -fixers and direct proof that they can fix N in the ocean is missing.
