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Biochemical, physiological and environmental aspects of symbiotic nitrogen fixation

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Biological nitrogen fixation in forest ecosystems: foundations and applications

Part of the book series: Forestry Sciences ((FOSC,volume 9))

Abstract

Over the last eighty years, an extensive body of data has built up, describing symbiotic nitrogen fixation in biochemical and physiological terms. This information can now be drawn on for many agricultural legumes to suggest with some confidence combinations of host plant variety and microsymbiont strain which, together with the appropriate plant management practices, will give good returns of biologically fixed nitrogen under particular growth conditions. Our knowledge of similar procedures which may enhance symbiotic nitrogen fixation in non-agricultural systems is much less complete, however. Indeed, in systems involving actinorhizal species, the basic experimental data on which rational programmes for improvement of the symbiotic association may be founded are still quite fragmentary. This chapter presents an overall view of those aspects of the biochemistry and physiology of symbiotic nitrogen fixation which are basic to the development of programmes designed to improve the symbiotic association and to the interpretation of the results obtained from such programmes. The experimental evidence discussed has been selected to indicate areas of research which should be of fundamental concern to forest physiologists interested in the profitable introduction of symbiotic nitrogen fixation into the forest environment.

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Dixon, R.O.D., Wheeler, C.T. (1983). Biochemical, physiological and environmental aspects of symbiotic nitrogen fixation. In: Gordon, J.C., Wheeler, C.T. (eds) Biological nitrogen fixation in forest ecosystems: foundations and applications. Forestry Sciences, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6878-3_5

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