SYSTEMIC NON-NODULAR ENDOSYMBIOTIC NITROGEN FIXATION IN PLANTS

摘要

Non-leguminous crops, e.g. wheat, maize and rice, do not form nodules and are dependent for their nutrition on fixed nitrogen from the soil, or from chemical/nitrogenous fertilizers. The present invention provides non-leguminous plants and leguminous plants, including legumes that fail to nodulate with Rhizobia, with bacteria that enable them to fix nitrogen endophytically. Therefore, the plants contain nitrogen fixing bacteria the bacteria being located intracellularly in living plant cells.