The Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation write by J. Postgate. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding of biological nitrogen fixation has advanced with impressive rapidity during the last decade. As befits a developing area of Science, these advances have uncovered information and raised questions which will have, and indeed have had, repercussions in numerous other branches of science and its applications. This 'information explosion', to use one of to-day's cant idioms, was initiated by the discovery, by a group of scientists working in the Central Research laboratories of Dupont de Nemours, U. S. A. , of a reproducibly active, cell-free enzyme preparation from a nitrogen fixing bacterium. Full credit is due to them. But subsequent developments, albeit sometimes quite as impressive, have too often been marked by that familiar disorder of a developing field of research-the scramble to publish. It is a scramble which, at its best, may represent a laudable desire to inform colleagues of the latest developments; yet which too easily develops into an undignified rush for priority, wherewith to impress one's Board of Directors or Grant-giving Institution. This, in miniature, is the tragedy of scientific research to-day: desire for credit causes research to be published in little bulletins, notes and preliminary communications, so that only those intimately involved in the field really know what is happening (and even they may well not see the forest for the trees). Those outside the field, or working in peripheral areas, may glean something of what is going on from reviews and fragments presented at meetings, but the broad pattern of development is often elusive.
The Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation
The Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation write by John R. Postgate. This book was released on 1976. The Chemistry and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Biology and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation
Biology and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biology and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation write by M. J. Dilworth. This book was released on 1991. Biology and Biochemistry of Nitrogen Fixation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is a wide-ranging critical evaluation by international experts of the state of knowledge in the whole field of biological nitrogen fixation. It includes coverage of the chemistry of N2 reduction, the biochemistry and molecular biology of the molybdenum and vanadium nitrogenases. There is review of the whole range of organisms fixing N2, including the free-living and symbiotic organisms (bacteria, cyanobacteria, actinomycetes). Detailed consideration is given to the ecology and agricultural use of the root nodule bacteria, the molecular biology and biochemistry of nodule formation and fuction. The practicability of extending symbiotic N2-fixation to other systems or to greater efficiency is examined.
The Biochemistry of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation
The Biochemistry of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Biochemistry of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation write by Perry William Wilson. This book was released on 1940. The Biochemistry of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Biological Nitrogen Fixation
Biological Nitrogen Fixation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biological Nitrogen Fixation write by Frans J. de Bruijn. This book was released on 2015-06-16. Biological Nitrogen Fixation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nitrogen is arguably the most important nutrient required by plants. However, the availability of nitrogen is limited in many soils and although the earth's atmosphere consists of 78.1% nitrogen gas (N2) plants are unable to use this form of nitrogen. To compensate , modern agriculture has been highly reliant on industrial nitrogen fertilizers to achieve maximum crop productivity. However, a great deal of fossil fuel is required for the production and delivery of nitrogen fertilizer. Moreover carbon dioxide (CO2) which is released during fossil fuel combustion contributes to the greenhouse effect and run off of nitrate leads to eutrophication of the waterways. Biological nitrogen fixation is an alternative to nitrogen fertilizer. It is carried out by prokaryotes using an enzyme complex called nitrogenase and results in atmospheric N2 being reduced into a form of nitrogen diazotrophic organisms and plants are able to use (ammonia). It is this process and its major players which will be discussed in this book. Biological Nitrogen Fixation is a comprehensive two volume work bringing together both review and original research articles on key topics in nitrogen fixation. Chapters across both volumes emphasize molecular techniques and advanced biochemical analysis approaches applicable to various aspects of biological nitrogen fixation. Volume 1 explores the chemistry and biochemistry of nitrogenases, nif gene regulation, the taxonomy, evolution, and genomics of nitrogen fixing organisms, as well as their physiology and metabolism. Volume 2 covers the symbiotic interaction of nitrogen fixing organisms with their host plants, including nodulation and symbiotic nitrogen fixation, plant and microbial "omics", cyanobacteria, diazotrophs and non-legumes, field studies and inoculum preparation, as well as nitrogen fixation and cereals. Covering the full breadth of current nitrogen fixation research and expanding it towards future advances in the field, Biological Nitrogen Fixation will be a one-stop reference for microbial ecologists and environmental microbiologists as well as plant and agricultural researchers working on crop sustainability.
