Nitrogen cycling: lecture summary
What will be an ideal response?
•Nitrogen fixation by microbes plays an essential role in making N bioavailable.
•Microbes have evolved ways to protect nitrogenase from O2 and regulate fixation.
•N-cycle reactions are coupled, and result in a number of intermediate products
•N-fixation, nitrification and denitrification form the basic ecosystem N-triangle
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