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How do leguminous plants help in maintaining soil fertility?

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The plant supplies Rhizobium with sugars and gives the plant with soluble nitrogen.

In addition to this, it meets under different crops that are merged with same field that helps prevent soil erosion and controls the spread of soil brone.

It makes under plant diseases and thus leguminous plants that add nitrate to the soil for improvement for fertility.

In leguminous plants,there occurs a change in the cytoplasm of roots which is responsible for production of Leghaemoglobin

These compound then forms the root nodules wherein dwells the nodule bacteria known as nitrogen fixing bacterias

Now these nitrogen fixing bacteria in root nodules fix the atmospheric nitrogen which is then converted into useful forms for plants ..

This is how the soil fertility is maintained…..


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Leguminous plants like pea have nitrogen fixing bacteria RHIZOBIUM in their root nodules. This RHIZOBIUM coverts free atmospheric nitrogen in to nitrogen compounds which is then taken in by plants and some are left behind, the left behind nitrogen compounds increases the fertility of soil



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