cannot be used as a biofertilizer.

Red algae

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Blue-green algae

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Glomus

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Rhizobium

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The correct option is A Red algae
Biofertilisers are microorganisms which can fix nitrogen and hence enrich the soil with utilisable nitrogen-containing compounds. Blue-green algae or cyanobacteria, glomus (a genus of fungi) and rhizobium can fix nitrogen, but brown and red algae cannot.

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