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nitrogen fixation

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-004437

The biological or chemical process by which elemental nitrogen from the air is converted to organic or available nitrogen.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-004437
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
Synonymsdiazotrophy; dinitrogen fixation
ReferencesUS Environmental Protection Agency; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsobiochemical pathways; soil biochemistry; leghemoglobin; nitrogen-fixing trees; nitrogen-fixing bacteria; actinorhizae; acetylene reduction; anaerobic ammonium oxidation; soil organic nitrogen; nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria; grain nitrogen content; plant nitrogen content; nitrogen
TranslationsSpanish: fijación del nitrógeno
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-004437",
  "term": "nitrogen fixation",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "The biological or chemical process by which elemental nitrogen from the air is converted to organic or available nitrogen.",
  "synonyms": [
    "diazotrophy",
    "dinitrogen fixation"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "biochemical pathways",
    "soil biochemistry",
    "leghemoglobin",
    "nitrogen-fixing trees",
    "nitrogen-fixing bacteria",
    "actinorhizae",
    "acetylene reduction",
    "anaerobic ammonium oxidation",
    "soil organic nitrogen",
    "nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria",
    "grain nitrogen content",
    "plant nitrogen content",
    "nitrogen"
  ],
  "references": [
    "US Environmental Protection Agency",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "fijación del nitrógeno"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/nitrogen-fixation/"
}

Record 4,437 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.