Biological Fixation of Nitrogen for Ecology and Sustainable Agriculture

Hardcover  328 pages  ISBN 3540620567      £150.00

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) - the conversion of molecular nitrogen into ammonia - is one of the most important reactions in ecology and agriculture. It is performed exclusively by microbes (prokaryotes), including many that live in symbiosis with plants. This book summarizes the recent research in this area, the participating microbes and the genetics of how their relevant genes could be transferred into plants. It suggests that in the light of a need for a more sustainable and less ecologically damaging agriculture, this is becoming an increasingly pressing issue. The content includes:

• Structural chemistry and biochemistry of nitrogenase.
• Signal perception, transduction and cell cycle genes in nodulation.
• Plant genes involved in nodulation.
• Bacterium-plant surface interaction.
• Molecular microbial ecology.
• Nitrogen fixing systems.
• Nitrogen fixation in sustainable agriculture.
• Carbon-nitrogen metabolism in symbiotic systems.
• Oxygen regulation in nitrogen fixation.
• Model plants for nitrogen fixation and legume genetics.
• Coevolution of symbiotic systems.

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