How much carbon can the ocean absorb, and what happens to it as the planet warms? Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer ...

Other types of diatoms form associations with nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, and these cyanobacteria symbionts can be easily detectable by the bright orange pigment they exhibit when exposed to ...

This nitrogen-fixing capacity of cyanobacteria played a pivotal role in enhancing plant nutrient uptake and overall growth performance. Characterization of synthesized nanoparticles demonstrated their ...

Nitrogen fixation is an energy demanding process. Thus, when mosses are exposed to high concentrations of bioavailable nitrogen, the cyanobacteria will consume this resident nitrogen rather than ...

What emerged was a strain of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria that are about 100 times as large as typical photosynthetic ocean bacteria. "They're like basketballs, compared to the pins of light we ...

While still in early development, scientists are trying to modify cyanobacteria to promote nitrogen fixation for certain plants. Scientists at MIT (my alma mater) are also in the game, working on ...

The Media and I: Enhancing the Soil to Improve Farming I began by explaining the role of nitrogen in plant growth, especially the clever partnership legumes like peas and soybeans have with ...

It was long assumed that cyanobacteria were mainly responsible for fixing nitrogen on early Earth, thus making nitrogen available to the biosphere. Researchers now show that purple sulfur bacteria ...

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

Nitrogen fixation in boreal forests is vital for sustaining ecosystem productivity in environments where soil nitrogen is limited. Moss-cyanobacteria associations, commonly found in species such ...

Because oxygen inhibits nitrogen fixation, most nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria only fix nitrogen at night, or do it in specialized cells. The lack of photosystem II enables the new microbe to fix ...