ABSTRACT Common bean has the potential to interact with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, especially of the Rhizobium genus. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the interaction between two rhizobia ...

Nitrogen finally joins the elite tier of elements like carbon that can form neutral allotropes—different structural forms of a single chemical element. Researchers from Justus Liebig University ...

A new nitrogen allotrope has been created at last Chemists string 6 nitrogen atoms together to make hexanitrogen by Bethany Halford June 11, 2025 Credit: Nature ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our atmosphere contains plenty of nitrogen, neither humans nor the vast majority of ...

Nitrogen is essential for all life on Earth. In the global oceans, however, this element is scarce, and nitrogen availability is therefore critical for the growth of marine life. Some bacteria ...

Similar nitrogen-fixing bacteria also live independently, adding nitrogen compounds to the soil rather than transferring them to a particular plant host. By allowing nitrogen-fixing bacteria to live ...

An alga’s bacterial symbiote has evolved into an organelle that turns atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, making the alga unique among eukaryotes.

In two recent papers, an international team led by UC Santa Cruz scientists describe the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell. The organelle is the fourth example in history ...

Novel research led by Wei Qin, an assistant professor of microbiology at the University of Oklahoma, that significantly changes the understanding of ammonia oxidation, a critical component of the ...

At the beginning of the XXᵉ century, two chemists succeeded in fixing nitrogen in the air. Their invention saw the birth of intensive agriculture, gravely disrupting the nitrogen cycle.