As greenhouse gas concentrations in the air continue to climb, plants are faced with a veritable feast of carbon dioxide, which they use alongside water and sunlight to photosynthesize. While years of ...

Help your plants to thrive by giving them a healthy diet, full of the right nutrients. Here's our guide to feeding your garden. Most plants need three major nutrients to thrive; nitrogen ...

Nitrogen fixing bacteria may have helped some cycads survive to the present day DURHAM, N.C. -- Once a favored food of grazing dinosaurs, an ancient lineage of plants called cycads helped sustain ...

This was the situation the team that the University of Cordoba's Molecular Physiology and Plant Biotechnology Group faced as it set out to discern the metabolism of purine nucleotides, such as ...

Gehringer explains, "Nitrogen gas is a mixture of the light atom 14 N and the heavier atom 15 N. When modern microbes use nitrogen in their metabolism, they use these two isotopes in a certain ...