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Assessment of Nitrogen Fixation in Terrestrial Environments in Field Conditions

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THE knowledge that the nitrogen-fixing enzyme complex, nitrogenase, catalyses various reductions as well as the formation of ammonia from dinitrogen1,2 has made possible an assay based on the reduction of acetylene to ethylene which is detected by gas chromatography with a hydrogen flame ionization detector3–6. The equipment required is compact enough to be carried in a mobile laboratory, which has not previously been easy using 15N2 as a tracer.

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  1. Department of Life Sciences, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, 47809

    W. S. SILVER

  2. Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706

    TIMOTHY MAGUE

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SILVER, W., MAGUE, T. Assessment of Nitrogen Fixation in Terrestrial Environments in Field Conditions. Nature 227, 378–379 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227378a0

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