Timothy Haskett

Jan 25, 2025 | enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Timothy Haskett |Louise Cooke |Patrick Green |Philip Poole

1 Introduction Legumes possess the remarkable ability to form symbioses with rhizobial bacteria. Housed within root nodule structures, rhizobia differentiate into bacteroids and fix atmospheric dinitrogen (N2) into NH3, which is released for assimilation by the plant (Poole, Ramachandran, and Terpolilli 2018). In return for a source of available nitrogen (N), plants provide bacteroids with carbon in the form of dicarboxylates (Mitsch et al. 2018).