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What is Rhizobium leguminosarum culture?


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Rhizobium leguminosarum:

  1. It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped (bacilli) bacteria that live in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship with the roots of leguminous plants such as pea, chickpea, etc.
  2. It is motile bacteria that is aerobic in nature.
  3. It possesses the ability to fix free nitrogen from the air, thereby used in the inoculation of legume seeds.
  4. They promote the growth of canola (oil seed crop) and lettuce.

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