Genetic Engineering of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation & Conservation of Fixed Nitrogen

Lyons, J.M., Valentine, R.C., Phillips, D.A., et.al., editors

ISBN 10: 0306407302 / ISBN 13: 9780306407307

Published by Plenum Press NY (c1981), 1981

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698pp. 8vo black & white tables & diagrams brown cloth Proceedings of a symposium of Enhancing Biological Production of Ammonia From Atmospheric Nitrogen & Soil Nitrate, held June 29-July 3, 1980 at Granlibakken, Lake Tahoe, California. #17 of the series: Basic Life Sciences Near Fine/VG+ dj (lightly faded) 0-306-40730-2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Genetic Engineering of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation & Conservation of Fixed Nitrogen
• Publisher: Plenum Press NY (c1981)
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306407302
• ISBN 13: 9780306407307
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

The present volume developed from a symposium entitled "Enhancing Biological Production of Ammonia From Atmospheric Nitrogen and Soil Nitrate" that was held at Lake Tahoe, California in June, 1980. The meeting was supported by the National Science Foundation, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis. A total of 99 scientists from 41 insti­ tutions participated. Plants capture solar energy in photosynthesis and use mineral nutrients to produce human food and fiber products. The extent to which such materials are removed from agricultural production sites represents a permanent drain of mineral nutrients. Some plants of agronomic importance such as alfalfa, soybean, and clover associate with soil bacteria and use photosynthetic energy to reduce N2 to NH3. Many other free-living bacteria and some symbioses involving procaryotes and eucaryotes also reduce N2. Such processes repre­ sent one natural mechanism by which Man can augment soil N for agronomic purposes without using fossil fuel to synthesize and distribute N fertilizer. Other metabolic conversions in the N cycle and physical leaching processes remove N made available through N2 fixation. Thus nitrification, denitrification, and utilization of soil N by plants are processes that must be con­ sidered if one is to conserve N captured by N2 fixation. The meeting at Lake Tahoe united scientists from many disci­ plines to review the literature and to discuss current research directed toward the goal stated in the symposium title.