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Fixation of Nitrogen by Bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata (Pursh) D.C)

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THE frequency and importance of nodulated non-leguminous plants are becoming more widely recognized. Allen and Allen1 have presented a summary of non-leguminous symbiosis in both the gymnosperms and angiosperms and emphasized analogies with the legume–rhizobia symbiosis. Several workers2–4 have used nitrogen-15 to demonstrate that fixation of atmospheric nitrogen does occur in the nodules of many non-leguminous plants.

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  1. S. R. WEBSTER

    Present address: Department of Soil Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

  2. A. G. WOLLUM II

    Present address: Department of Agronomy, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico

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  1. Department of Soils, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon

    S. R. WEBSTER, C. T. YOUNGBERG & A. G. WOLLUM II

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WEBSTER, S., YOUNGBERG, C. & WOLLUM, A. Fixation of Nitrogen by Bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata (Pursh) D.C). Nature 216, 392–393 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216392a0

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