Since the mid-1900s, humans have been exerting an ever-increasing impact on the global nitrogen cycle. Human activities, such as making fertilizers and burning fossil fuels, have significantly ...

Understanding the bacteria’s role in the nitrogen cycle is critical to unraveling the impact of human activity on the planet’s delicate nitrogen balance. In an attempt to better understand which bugs ...

The molecular mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation has been unraveled. The anaerobic oxidation of ammonia (anammox) is an important pathway in the nitrogen cycle that was only discovered in ...

Atmospheric nitrogen must first be fixed, or converted to ammonia (NH3) by certain bacteria. Steps of the Nitrogen Cycle Atmospheric nitrogen (N2) is converted to ammonia (NH3) by nitrogen-fixing ...

Nitrogen fixation by bacteria completes the nitrogen cycle, providing nitrogen to plants that are then consumed by other life, the nitrogen eventually being returned to the environment.

The study also shows that the activity of these bacteria accounts for about 10% of the overall N 2 fixation in the global ...

The discovery of anammox bacteria in the open ocean has major consequences for our understanding of the global nitrogen cycle. Models of global nitrogen budgets, which play an important role in ...

Nitrogen, an essential chemical element for life, is transformed into its different chemical forms in numerous steps of the global nitrogen cycle. Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria are important players ...

Cycle of all life gets help from bacteria. Angela O'Callaghan. Desert Gardening. As autumn brings cooler temperatures and longer nights, some of us start to get a bit philosophical.

If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day ...

Since the mid-1900s, humans have been exerting an ever-increasing impact on the global nitrogen cycle. Human activities, such as making fertilizers and burning fossil fuels, have significantly ...