Biochemical Genetics of Nitrogen Fixation

Brill, Winston J.

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Winston J. Brill³

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This chapter will introduce the subject of nitrogen fixation and will stress the biochemical aspects. Subsequent papers on nitrogen fixation in this volume will focus on the molecular biology and regulation of the system in several different organisms. For a more detailed background, the reader may want to consult one or more reviews dealing with the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis^{1,2,3,4,5,6,7} or those dealing with the biochemistry of nitrogen fixation in free-living bacteria^3,6,8,9. Both the biochemistry and molecular biology of nitrogen fixation are quite complex and breakthroughs in one area of nitrogen fixation research frequently impact on other areas.

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Department of Bacteriology and Center for Studies of Nitrogen Fixation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA
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Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Orio Ciferri
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Leon Dure III

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Brill, W.J. (1983). Biochemical Genetics of Nitrogen Fixation. In: Ciferri, O., Dure, L. (eds) Structure and Function of Plant Genomes. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series, vol 63. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4538-1_23

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