“Biological Nitrogen Fixation” Book Summary  

作　　者：Frans J. de Bruijn Frans J. de Bruijn(INRA/CNRS Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Castanet, France)

机构地区：[1]INRA/CNRS Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Castanet, France

出　　处：《Advances in Microbiology》2016年第6期407-411,共5页微生物学（英文）

摘　　要：Biological nitrogen fixation is a very valuable alternative to nitrogen fertilizer. This process will be discussed in the “Biological Nitrogen Fixation” book. A wide array of free-living and associative nitrogen fixing organisms (diazotrophs) will be covered. The most extensively studied and applied example of biological nitrogen fixation is the symbiotic interaction between nitrogen fixing “rhizobia” and legume plants. While legumes are important as major food and feed crops, cereals such as wheat, maize and rice are the primary food crops, but do not have this symbiotic nitrogen fixing interaction with rhizobia. It has thus been a “holy grail” to transfer the ability to fix nitrogen to the cereals and this topic will be also addressed in these books.Biological nitrogen fixation is a very valuable alternative to nitrogen fertilizer. This process will be discussed in the “Biological Nitrogen Fixation” book. A wide array of free-living and associative nitrogen fixing organisms (diazotrophs) will be covered. The most extensively studied and applied example of biological nitrogen fixation is the symbiotic interaction between nitrogen fixing “rhizobia” and legume plants. While legumes are important as major food and feed crops, cereals such as wheat, maize and rice are the primary food crops, but do not have this symbiotic nitrogen fixing interaction with rhizobia. It has thus been a “holy grail” to transfer the ability to fix nitrogen to the cereals and this topic will be also addressed in these books.

关 键 词：Biological Nitrogen Fixation DIAZOTROPHS NODULATION NITROGENASE Legumes CEREALS 

分 类 号：S51[农业科学—作物学]