The nitrogen cycle is a critical component of Earth's ecosystem, playing an essential role in sustaining life. However, human activity has significantly disrupted the natural balance of the nitrogen ...

The Thaumarchaeota play a key role in the marine nitrogen cycle. They gain energy for growth by converting ammonia, which is the most reduced form of inorganic nitrogen, to a more oxidized form: ...

Climate change is not only warming the planet and disrupting rainfall, it is also quietly rewiring the way nitrogen moves through the world’s croplands, forests, and grasslands. This hidden shift in ...

The horseshoe vetch (Hippocrepis comosa), a European relative of beans, is the first plant discovered to break down nitrogen-containing compounds in its tissues into a readily usable nitrate form, ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) the influence of parasitic fungi on the ...

A large quantity of nitrogen compounds -- emitted into the atmosphere by humans through the burning of fossil fuels and the use of nitrogen fertilizers -- enters the oceans and may lead to the removal ...

Guanidine is an organic compound primarily used as a denaturing reagent to disrupt the structures of proteins and nucleic ...

ON September 2, at the recent British Association meeting in Newcastle, a discussion was held by Section B (Chemistry) on "The Nitrogen Cycle in Nature". Prof. G. R. Clemo, in introducing the ...

Considered natural allies against climate change due to their absorption of carbon dioxide, plants may however offer more limited help than expected. The cause: an essential ...