The Leeuwenhoek Lecture, 1992 Bacterial evolution and the nitrogen-fixing plant
- 29 December 1992
- journal article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 338 (1286) , 409-416
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1992.0158
Abstract
Biological nitrogen fixation is fundamental to the economy of the biosphere, yet it is restricted to a few dozen bacterial species. Why have plants not acquired it during evolution? No serious physiological or genetic obstacles seem to exist. Has a relatively late emergence, among genomically flexible prokaryotes, effectively precluded appropriate seletion pressure?Keywords
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