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Usually Rhizobium or Bradyrhizobium.

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Q: What is the genus of the nitrogen fixing bacteria that is common with leguminous plants?
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How will the removal of leguminous plants affect the nitrogen cycle?

it affects the nitrogen cycle as the leguminous plants have nitrogen-fixing bacteria on their roots and these nitrogen-fixing bacteria help to collect nitrogen which is transferred to animals when these leguminous plants have been eaten.


What kind of bacteria survive on leguminous plants?

Nitrogen fixing Rhizobium bacteria.


Where are the nitrogen fixing bacteria present?

these are found in the soil and in the roots of leguminous plants


What is symbiotic nitrogen fixation?

Nitrogen fixation occurs in leguminous plant that have nitrogen fixing bacteria in the root nodule. The plants utilize the nitrogen from the nitrogen fixing bacteria. The bacteria utilize plant sugars formed via photosynthesis.


What two kinds of plants have nitrogen bacteria in their roots?

Nitrogen fixing bacteria are common in the roots of leguminous plants like Melilotus,Trigonella, ground nut etc. and some Gymnospermous plants like Podocarpus


What vegetables like nitrogen?

All leguminous plants such as pea, pulses, beans etc, add nitrogen to the soil by fixing the atmospheric nitrogen in their root nodules due to the presence of nitrogen-fixing bacteria inside them such as Rhizobium.


Which eubacteria help plants in the production of proteins nitrogen-fixing bacteria endospores bacillia halophiles?

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria


What type of plant that can host the bacteria that can fix nitrogen?

many types of pea crop.. The roots of these plants house nitrogen fixing bacteria :) i think a type of potato plant does has them as well Pea, gram and ground nut (pea nut)


What lives in the roots of leguminous plants and convert atmospheric nitrogen into plants unable form?

Rhizoobium or nitrogen fixing bacteria lives in the roots of leguminous plants.leguminous plants are not able to use atmospheric nitrogen as sush,so these bacteria convert nitrogen into simpler forms i.e nitrates and nitrits which are easily used up by these plants.


What organisms can transform unusable nitrogen?

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria


What are leguminous plant and how do they increase the fertility of soil?

Peas, beans or peanuts. There is a type of bacteria that can grow on their roots known as nitrogen fixing bacteria. It has the ability to take nitrogen from the air, and convert it to a form of nitrogen fertilizer than plants can use.


How are root nodules useful for the plants?

The root nodules of leguminous plants like gram,pulses,etc. contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria,rhizobia, which help in fixing nitrogen in the soil for the plants to absorb.Nitrogen is essential for the growth of plants.