Saturday, April 24, 2010

Mutualism of bacteria and legumes?

What benifit is derived from the mutualism of bacteria and legumes??

Mutualism of bacteria and legumes?
Leguminous plants have their association with bacteria to support their nitrogen requirement...


Symbiotic bacteria like Nitrobacter, Nitrosomonas etc...are associated with those plants...


these bacteria have nitrogenase enzyme and plants have leg-haemoglobin....these combine to ensure nitrogen requirement for plants...


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