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The 68 pages that link to Nitrogen fixation, each with the reason it gives.

• Crop rotationRelated: Nitrogen-fixing microbes associated with legumes can enrich soil during a rotation.

• Nitrogen cycleRelated: Understanding fixation clarifies why organisms cannot directly use the atmosphere’s nitrogen gas.

• NitrogenRelated: It unlocks atmospheric nitrogen for biological and industrial use.

• LichenRelated: Cyanobacterial lichens add fixed nitrogen to ecosystems.

• Cover cropRelated: Legume cover crops can add nitrogen through symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

• CyanobacteriaRelated: Some cyanobacteria supply ecosystems with fixed nitrogen, often in specialized cells or under low-oxygen conditions.

• FabaceaeRelated: Many legumes gain usable nitrogen through bacterial partners in their roots.

• BacteriaRelated: Certain bacteria perform this process, supplying nitrogen to ecosystems and crops.

• IntercroppingRelated: Legumes can supply nitrogen to neighboring crops through soil processes and residue turnover.

• ForageRelated: Legume forage can enrich soils through nitrogen fixation by root-associated bacteria.

• Three SistersRelated: It explains one potential soil benefit of including beans in the planting.

• LightningRelated: Lightning's heat enables some atmospheric nitrogen to form compounds that reach soil in rain.

• ProkaryoteRelated: Certain prokaryotes make nitrogen available to plants and ecosystems.

• RootRelated: Some roots host bacteria that supply plants with fixed nitrogen.

• Soil biodiversityRelated: Certain soil microbes add usable nitrogen to ecosystems through this process.

• Green manureRelated: Legume green manures can add biologically fixed nitrogen to soil.

• ChickpeaRelated: Root-associated bacteria can help chickpeas obtain nitrogen from the air.

• Companion plantingRelated: Legume companions can host nitrogen-fixing bacteria, though benefits to neighbors are not automatic.

• PeanutRelated: Peanut root-associated bacteria can add fixed nitrogen to agricultural systems.

• BacteriumRelated: Certain bacteria perform this process independently or in plant partnerships.

• PhotobiontRelated: Cyanobacterial photobionts can add fixed nitrogen to a lichen association.

• MilpaRelated: Beans can host nitrogen-fixing bacteria, enriching soil within mixed milpa fields.

• AlgaeRelated: Some algal symbionts and cyanobacteria supply fixed nitrogen in nutrient-poor waters.

• FallowRelated: Legume cover during fallow can add biologically fixed nitrogen to soil.

• MolybdenumRelated: Some nitrogen-fixing enzymes rely on molybdenum as a metal component.

• PeaRelated: Bacteria in pea root nodules fix nitrogen in partnership with the plant.

• Environmental microbiologyRelated: Certain environmental microbes make inert atmospheric nitrogen available to ecosystems.

• Martinus BeijerinckRelated: Beijerinck isolated bacteria capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen, linking microbes to soil fertility.

• AutotrophRelated: Autotrophs need fixed nitrogen to make proteins and other nitrogen-containing molecules.

• Bean (food)Related: Many bean plants host bacteria that fix nitrogen in root nodules.

• George Washington CarverRelated: Legumes in rotation can enrich soil through nitrogen-fixing bacteria in their root nodules.

• Adzuki beanRelated: Like many legumes, adzuki can associate with bacteria that fix nitrogen in root nodules.

• CloverRelated: The clover–bacteria partnership adds fixed nitrogen to plant and soil systems.

• LentilRelated: Lentil crops can gain nitrogen through partnerships between roots and soil bacteria.

• Prokaryotic cellRelated: Certain prokaryotes perform this transformation, supplying nitrogen to ecosystems.

• Green beanRelated: Common bean roots can host bacteria that fix nitrogen in soil.

• KudzuRelated: Kudzu’s root-associated bacteria fix nitrogen, allowing it to grow in nitrogen-poor soils.

• VignaRelated: Many Vigna species form root-nodule partnerships that fix nitrogen with bacteria.

• Norfolk four-course systemRelated: Legumes in the rotation replenished nitrogen used by cereal crops.

• PseudomonadotaRelated: Some members supply usable nitrogen to plants and ecosystems.

• SalvinialesRelated: The Azolla–cyanobacterium partnership brings fixed nitrogen into aquatic ecosystems and agriculture.

• Snap peaRelated: Bacteria associated with pea roots can supply nitrogen to the plant.

• Acacia melanoxylonRelated: Root-associated bacteria can help the tree add biologically available nitrogen to soils.

• AnabaenaRelated: This process supplies usable nitrogen to many Anabaena species.

• Lobaria pulmonariaRelated: Its cyanobacterial partner can fix nitrogen, enriching the lichen’s shared nutrient supply.

• RhizobiaRelated: Rhizobia perform this conversion inside legume nodules.

• VachelliaRelated: Like many legumes, Vachellia species can associate with root-nodule bacteria that fix nitrogen.

• Vigna aconitifoliaRelated: Root-associated bacteria can supply moth bean with nitrogen while enriching soils.

• Acacia decurrensRelated: Like many legumes, black wattle associates with microbes that can fix nitrogen in root nodules.

• Alnus glutinosaRelated: Black alder gains nitrogen through its root partnership with Frankia.