Symbiotic world

Little is known about the potential to exploit mutualism in agricultural systems. Almost all the work to date has concentrated on symbiotic nitrogen-fixers and mycorrhizal associations. Availability of soil nitrogen and phosphorus is a severe problem in many areas of the world. Allelochemicals may impact the availability of these nutrients through effects on the symbiotic microbes. 

Our linguistic abilities aren t innate. They are not encoded in our DNA. Language is more like E. coli, the bacteria in our gut, symbiotically helping us to digest our food. Language helps us digest phenomena, allowing us to ruminate on the nature of the world. ... 

Research on BNF almost ceased during the first World War and, even before 1914, its focus had shifted from Europe to America. All movements have their scriptures for BNF the Old Testament was Fred, Baldwin and McCoy s The Root Nodule Bacteria and Leguminous Plants (1932), and the New Testament, P. W. Wilson s The Biochemistry of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation (1940) both published by the University of Wisconsin Press in Madison. 

The Lipid World hypothesis states that polar hydrocarbons formed in a prebi-otic Earth, or originated from extraterrestrial meteoric sources, and then went on to aggregate into vesicles. These vesicles then capture chemical species at random in some cases the concentrating effect of the vesicle would facilitate chemical reactions and some of these would eventually lead to self sustaining chemical reactions. Eventually protein-based enzymes would emerge that could synthesize lipids and the entire system would then become symbiotic. 

Kumari, R., Pham, G.H., Singh. A., Bhoon, Y.K., Srivastava, A.K. and Varma, A. (2004). Biotechnological Processes for Transfer Technology of Medicinal Plants Mediated hy Symbiotic Microorganisms (From Lab to Fields Novel Concepts.). Souvenir, World Herbal Expo, Bhopal, India. 

Molybdenum (Mo) deficiencies have been reported from many countries around the world, mainly in acidic soils. Sandy soils are Mo-deficient more often than are loam or clay soils. Most Mo deficiencies are associated with legume crops, because Mo is an essential constituent of enzymes necessary for fixation of nitrogen (N) by bacteria growing symbiotically with legumes. Molybdenum is also required in other enzyme systems in all plants. 

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