News Headline

Long-term nitrogen fertilizer use disrupts plant-microbe mutualisms

Source
Science Daily

Publication Date
2015-02-24

When exposed to nitrogen fertilizer over a period of years, nitrogen-fixing bacteria called rhizobia evolve to become less beneficial to legumes -- the plants they normally serve, researchers report in a new study.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150223142254.htm