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'Legumes fertilize the soils but cereals do not'. Discuss.

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Leguminous plants are characterized by possessing root nodules where nitrogen is fixed by symbiotic bacteria Rhizobium. The fixed nitrogen fertilizers the soil The cereals, on the other hand, do not possess the nitrogen-fixing ability and, therefore, do not fertilize the soil.

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