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प्रश्न
A farmer adds Azotobacter culture to soil before sowing maize. Which mineral element is being replenished?
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उत्तर
Azotobacter is nitrogen-fixing bacteria in cereal crops like maize. This means it converts free nitrogen in the air to ammonia (NH3) or other related nitrogenous compounds.
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What are the conditions necessary for fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by Rhizobium. What is their role in N2 -fixation?
What are the steps involved in formation of a root nodule?
Plants absorb nitrogen as ______.
In Glycine max, the product of biological nitrogen fixation is transported from the root nodules to other parts as ______.
In some plants, like soyabean, fixed nitrogen is exported into the transpiration stream as :
With regard to the Biological Nitrogen Fixation by Rhizobium in association with soybean, which one of the following statement/ statements does not hold true.
Nitrogen fixation is shown by prokaryotes and not by eukaryotes. Comment.
What is the function of leghaemoglobin in the root nodule of a legume?
Name one non-symbiotic nitrogen fixing prokaryote.
Rice fields produce an important greenhouse gas. Name it.
Complete the equation for reductive amination
\[\ce{->[?] + NH^{+}4 + NADPH ->[][?] glutamate + NADP + H2O}\]
Name the most crucial enzyme found in root nodules for N2 fixation? Does it require a special pink coloured pigment for its functioning? Elaborate.
Trace the events starting from the coming in contact of Rhizobium to a leguminous root till nodule formation. Add a note on importance of leg hemoglobin
Give the biochemical events occurring in the root nodule of a pulse plant. What is the end product? What is its fate?
