A rare find “The critical point is that these bacteria can simultaneously fix carbon and nitrogen from the atmosphere,” explains Numata, who also heads the Biomacromolecules Research Team at ...

Four autotrophic carbon-fixation pathways were already known ... citric acid cycle and is found in anaerobic or microaerophilic bacteria and archaea. A third autotrophic pathway (Wood–Ljungdahl ...

Because these plants have access to atmospheric nitrogen from their symbiotic bacteria, their leaves contain ... of enzymes that improve the efficiency of carbon uptake, shortening how long plants ...

Compared with HCS, LCS presented higher abundances of cycling pathways involving aerobic respiration, carbon fixation ... soil viruses potentially lyse bacteria by encoding peptidoglycan lyase ...