Ebook: The Nitrogen Fixation and its Research in China

Nitrogen Fixation by symbiotic organisms is considered an important contribution to the solution of food problems throughout the world. For manyyears, Chinese scientists have focused their research in this area. Today more than half of the total nitrogen fertilizers applied are from biological fixation sources. The editor is an international renowned scientist at the Chinese Academy of sciences. He has brought together contributions from various research fields in China and Europe.Together they present the state-of-the-art in nitrogen-fixation research. The studies range from actino- mycete fixation induced in various genera andspecies of plants, mechanisms and chemical modeling of enzyme systems togenetical engineering of organisms.

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Nitrogen Fixation by symbiotic organisms is considered an important contribution to the solution of food problems throughout the world. For manyyears, Chinese scientists have focused their research in this area. Today more than half of the total nitrogen fertilizers applied are from biological fixation sources. The editor is an international renowned scientist at the Chinese Academy of sciences. He has brought together contributions from various research fields in China and Europe.Together they present the state-of-the-art in nitrogen-fixation research. The studies range from actino- mycete fixation induced in various genera andspecies of plants, mechanisms and chemical modeling of enzyme systems togenetical engineering of organisms.

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Nitrogen Fixation by symbiotic organisms is considered an important contribution to the solution of food problems throughout the world. For manyyears, Chinese scientists have focused their research in this area. Today more than half of the total nitrogen fertilizers applied are from biological fixation sources. The editor is an international renowned scientist at the Chinese Academy of sciences. He has brought together contributions from various research fields in China and Europe.Together they present the state-of-the-art in nitrogen-fixation research. The studies range from actino- mycete fixation induced in various genera andspecies of plants, mechanisms and chemical modeling of enzyme systems togenetical engineering of organisms.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Research on the Chemical Modelling of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in the New China—An Overview of Research Carried out at the Fujian Institute During the 1970s and the Early 1980s....Pages 3-29
A Chemical Bond Theory of Transition-Metal-Dinitrogen Complexes....Pages 31-62
Study on the Chemistry of Molybdenum—Iron—Sulfur and Iron—Sulfur Clusters....Pages 63-86
Studies on the Mechanism of Nitrogenase Catalysis— Substrates-Cluster-Coordination-Chemistry Approach....Pages 87-117
ATP Binding to Nitrogenase and ATP-Driven Electron Transfer in Nitrogen Fixation....Pages 119-150
Chemical Modelling of the Active Site of Molybdenum—Iron Protein. Synergism of MoFe3S4 Cubane-Like Unit from Physical and Chemical Evidence....Pages 151-174
Synthesis, Structure and Properties of some Mo—Fe—S, Mo—S Model Compounds for the Mo—Fe Center and the First Coordination Sphere of the Mo—Atom in Nitrogenase....Pages 175-191
Systematic Investigations on the Bonding Property of the M—Fe—S (M = Mo, V, and W) Cluster Compounds and Novel Assumption on the Active Center Models of Nitrogenase....Pages 193-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Multiple Binding Sites in the Complex Between the nodA-D Intergenic Region the Product of the nodD Gene....Pages 225-228
Nitrogenase and FeMo-Cofactor....Pages 229-233
Chemical Modification of the Active Center of Nitrogenase....Pages 235-250
Genetic Improvement of Rhizobium Strains....Pages 251-264
The Importance of the Rhizobial Cell Surface in Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation....Pages 265-285
The Nodulation of Legumes by Rhizobia....Pages 287-301
Nitrogen-Fixing Enterobacter: Structure of nif-Gene Group, nif-Plasmid Spread and Risk Assessment for Releases....Pages 303-314
Molecular Population Genetics and Evolution of Rhizobia....Pages 315-341
Generalized Nitrogen Regulation in the Purple Non-Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 343-363
Front Matter....Pages 365-381
Leghemoglobins and Their Gene Expressions....Pages 383-399
Front Matter....Pages 401-407
The Biological Nitrogen Fixation Systems Adopted in Rice Paddy Fields in China....Pages 223-223
Characteristics, Distribution, Ecology, and Utilization of Astragalus Sinicus-Rhizobia Symbiosis....Pages 409-420
Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Rice Plants....Pages 421-421
Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation Resources: A Study on Sinorhizobium fredii and Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Their Applications....Pages 423-437
Nitrogen-Fixing Blue—Green Algae....Pages 439-455
Nitrogen Fixation of Azolla and its Utilization in Agriculture in China....Pages 457-486
Studies on Resource of Actinorhizal Trees and Their Frankia Endophytes....Pages 487-499
Studies on the Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Actinomycete Frankia in China....Pages 501-524
Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical and Subtropical Leguminous Trees....Pages 525-537
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