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Nitrogen fixation in a landrace of maize is supported by a mucilage-associated diazotrophic microbiota

Van Deynze, Allen, Zamora, Pablo, Delaux, Pierre-Marc, Heitmann, Cristobal, Jayaraman, Dhileepkumar, Rajasekar, Shanmugam, Graham, Danielle, Maëda, Junko
PLoS Biology, 2018

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Read the source doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2006352

Findings

Nitrogen derived from the atmosphere (%Ndfa): 82%

Upper end of the 29-82% range measured by 15N field experiments over 5 years in an indigenous Sierra Mixe maize landrace in nitrogen-depleted soil, not a modern high-yield cultivar.

atmospheric nitrogen fixation contributed 29%-82% of the nitrogen nutrition of Sierra Mixe maize

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