Abstract
IT is a familiar difficulty in work on nitrogen-fixation by excised root nodules that the capacity to fix nitrogen decreases rapidly. This may be due either to a shortage of some essential metabolite1 or to an accumulation of some intermediary during the fixation process.
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KOSTER, A. Changes in Metabolism of Isolated Root Systems of Soy Bean. Nature 198, 709–710 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198709a0
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