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How do legumes such as peas and beans get the nitrogen compounds they need for growth?
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∙ 15y ago
They extract Nitrogen Gas N2 from the air, and transport it to their roots. There, symbiotic microorganisms convert the Nitrogen into compounds that the plants can use for growth, such as ammonia.
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Can plants absorb nitrogen compounds from soil on their own?
Yes. Vascular plants can absorb nitrogen compounds such as nitrates from the soil on their own.What plants can't do on their own is fix nitrogen from the air into nitrogen compounds. Some plants including legumes (such as peas, beans, lupins) and casuarinas form symbioses with nitrogen-fixing bacteria to form nitrogen into nitrogen compounds.
What are legum?
Legumes are plants that can use nitrogen from the air for growth. This nitrogen can be added to the soil to increase soil fertility. Legumes include peas and beans.
Is cucumber a nitrogen fixer?
No. Plants that belong to the family Leguminosae (legumes) are nitrogen fixers. Peas and beans are examples.
Which plants help to restore nitrogen to the soil?
Legumes. Peas, beans clover etc.
Nitrogen fixing bacteria live symbiotically in what?
they live in the roots of beans and peanuts- jeff chandler
Can peas or beans be planted in the same spot after garlic has been harvested?
yes and the peas or beans are legumes they actually improve the soil by producing nitrogen at the roots.
Why did medieval farmers grow peas or beans on their land for one out of three years?
Peas and beans belong to a very special group of plants known as legumes. Legumes are plants which have a bacteria living symbiotically in their roots which "fix" nitrogen for use by the plants themselves and thos that eat the plants. By planting legumes every 3 years, the farmers were using a natural form of nitrogen fertilizer!
Which branch studies beans and legumes?
a pathologist is who studies beans and legumes
What two kinds of plants have nitrogen fixing bacteria in their roots?
Legumes do. Peas are a good example.
Soya beans don't need nitrogen fertilizer?
All the bean family -the legumes- have symbiotic bacteria that live in nodules in the roots. These bacteria have the ability to take nitrogen out of the air and convert it into nitrogen chemicals that the plants can use - they are called nitrogen fixing bacteria-. Legumes therefore do not need added fertilizers to flourish.
Why do organic farmers grow more peas and beans?
Because peas and beans are legumes, plants which fix nitrogen, an essential plant nutrient, in the soil for the next crop cycle.
What type of plant that has bacteria living with it that can convert to nitrogen?
Legumes (e.g peas and beans). They form symbiotic relationships with Rhizobia bacteria which fix atmospheric nitrogen into nitrates which can be used by the plant.
