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mutualistic bacterium

biology
Also known as: symbiotic bacterium

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nitrogen fixation

  • Learn how nitrogen-fixing bacteria fix nitrogen, also how it benefits the farmers in agriculture
    In nitrogen fixation: Nitrogen fixation in nature

    …Azotobacter, Beijerinckia, and Clostridium; and mutualistic (symbiotic) bacteria such as Rhizobium, associated with leguminous plants, and various Azospirillum species, associated with cereal grasses.

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