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Name the organism that fixes nitrogen in symbiotic association with a water fern. Where does it live in such plants?

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Anabaena a cyanobacterium is symbiotically associated with water fern Azolla pinnata . This bacterium dwells in ovoid cavities of the leaf in Azolla .
The bacterium fixes atmospheric N2 for the plant.

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