The Nitrogen Fixation and its Research in China

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Research on the Chemical Modelling of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in the New China—An Overview of Research Carried out at the Fujian Institute During the 1970s and the Early 1980s....Pages 3-29
A Chemical Bond Theory of Transition-Metal-Dinitrogen Complexes....Pages 31-62
Study on the Chemistry of Molybdenum—Iron—Sulfur and Iron—Sulfur Clusters....Pages 63-86
Studies on the Mechanism of Nitrogenase Catalysis— Substrates-Cluster-Coordination-Chemistry Approach....Pages 87-117
ATP Binding to Nitrogenase and ATP-Driven Electron Transfer in Nitrogen Fixation....Pages 119-150
Chemical Modelling of the Active Site of Molybdenum—Iron Protein. Synergism of MoFe 3 S 4 Cubane-Like Unit from Physical and Chemical Evidence....Pages 151-174
Synthesis, Structure and Properties of some Mo—Fe—S, Mo—S Model Compounds for the Mo—Fe Center and the First Coordination Sphere of the Mo—Atom in Nitrogenase....Pages 175-191
Systematic Investigations on the Bonding Property of the M—Fe—S (M = Mo, V, and W) Cluster Compounds and Novel Assumption on the Active Center Models of Nitrogenase....Pages 193-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Identification and DNA Sequence Analysis of the fixX Gene of R. leguminosarum bv. Viciae ....Pages 225-228
Multiple Binding Sites in the Complex Between the nodA-D Intergenic Region the Product of the nodD Gene....Pages 229-233
Nitrogenase and FeMo-Cofactor....Pages 235-250
Chemical Modification of the Active Center of Nitrogenase....Pages 251-264
Genetic Improvement of Rhizobium Strains....Pages 265-285
The Importance of the Rhizobial Cell Surface in Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation....Pages 287-301
 Rhizobium Meliloti Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation: Identification of NIF and FIX Genes; The NIF FIX Cascade Regulatory Pathway....Pages 303-314
The Nodulation of Legumes by Rhizobia....Pages 315-341
Nitrogen-Fixing Enterobacter : Structure of nif -Gene Group, nif -Plasmid Spread and Risk Assessment for Releases....Pages 343-363
Molecular Population Genetics and Evolution of Rhizobia....Pages 365-381
Identification of nif and nod Genes in Frankia ....Pages 383-399
Generalized Nitrogen Regulation in the Purple Non-Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 401-407
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Leghemoglobins and Their Gene Expressions....Pages 409-420
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
The Biological Nitrogen Fixation Systems Adopted in Rice Paddy Fields in China....Pages 423-437
Characteristics, Distribution, Ecology, and Utilization of Astragalus Sinicus -Rhizobia Symbiosis....Pages 439-455
Nitrogen Fixation Associated with Rice Plants....Pages 457-486
Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation Resources: A Study on Sinorhizobium fredii and Bradyrhizobium japonicum and Their Applications....Pages 487-499
Nitrogen-Fixing Blue—Green Algae....Pages 501-524
Nitrogen Fixation of Azolla and its Utilization in Agriculture in China....Pages 525-537
Studies on Resource of Actinorhizal Trees and Their Frankia Endophytes....Pages 539-553
Studies on the Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Actinomycete Frankia in China....Pages 555-566
Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Tropical and Subtropical Leguminous Trees....Pages 567-585
 Rhizobium Resources in the Arid Region of Xinjiang....Pages 587-610