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Leguminous plants do not require nitrogenous fertilizers. Why is it so?

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Leguminous plants do not need nitrogenous fertilizers because they can fix the atmospheric nitrogen. Rhizobium is a bacteria that lives in the roots of these plants. It converts the nitrogen into the form that can be absorbed by the plant.

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