Nitrogen-fixing Actinorhizal Symbioses (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)

This book is the self-contained sixth volume of a comprehensive series on nitrogen fixation. It presents the state-of-the-art in regards to actinorhizal symbioses. Like legumes, actinorhizal plants form root nodules that host nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria. However, because the macrosymbionts are, with one exception, woody plants rather than crop plants, actinorhizal symbioses are less well-known than legume symbioses to which they are phylogenetically related. Actinorhizal plants come from eight different families. They can grow on marginal soils by virtue of these symbioses and are used extensively in reforestation, soil reclamation, and desert agroforestry. The diversity of the involved host plants poses a variety of challenges to the actinorhizal symbiosis and results in interesting strategies, for example, to cope with the O2 dilemma or nutrient exchange between plant and bacterium. The actinorhizal micro-symbionts are Gram-positive actinomycetes of the genus Frankia...

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Nitrogen Fixation: Origins, Applications, and Research Progress, 6
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	November 2007
Editors:	Katharina Pawlowski • William E Newton
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
Edition:	2008 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-3540-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Biochemistry > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Botany & plant sciences > General
LSN:	1-4020-3540-3
Barcode:	9781402035401

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