DOES THE PEA PLANT FIX ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN?
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- 1 January 1927
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 2 (1) , 83-90
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.2.1.83
Abstract
Pea plants, grown either in the presence or absence of additional amounts of N in the original culture solution and kept under sterile conditions until planting, have shown, on statistical treatment of the results," a small unqualifiable loss of N. This N was not lost during germination, but during the growth period of the plant. Fixation of atmospheric N by the plants used in these experiments was not altogether precluded, since the amounts lost may have sufficed to hide any gains owing to fixation. These experiments confirm and extend those of Lipman and Taylor, reported in the Jour. Franklin Institute 198 475 3.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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