Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

A University of Iowa faculty member and his students are making advancements in sustainability research, ranging from the nitrogen cycle to munitions. The National Academy of Engineering has ...

A new study has revealed how tiny microbes in rivers and wetlands across China help clean up excess nitrogen pollution, offering fresh insights into the health of freshwater ecosystems and the global ...

In the nitrogen cycle, phytoplankton and other marine plants turn nitrate (NO 3) into organic nitrogen during photosynthesis. The organic nitrogen sinks into the deep ocean, where microbes "eat" the ...

It's not every day you find clues to the planet's inner workings in aquarium scum. But that's what happened a few years ago when University of Washington researchers cultured a tiny organism from the ...

Normally this time of year the nitrogen and wheat seed is flowing. But the dry spell has a lot of the central plains wheat producers in a holding pattern. And right now many of the grain only ...

During the past century through food and energy production, human activities have altered the world's nitrogen cycle by accelerating the rate of reactive nitrogen creation. India has made impressive ...

A new retrofitted mobile research van, led by a group of Boston University marine scientists, however, aims to showcase their ...

Advances in Horticultural Science, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2011), pp. 81-89 (9 pages) Research was carried out in Latina province (Italy) on rocket, radish and zucchini grown under tunnel. Ten treatments, ...