Researchers identify plant molecule that sops up iron-rich heme miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new study from MIT reveals that a peptide produced by some legumes helps them control nitrogen-fixing bacteria by sequestering all available heme, an iron-containing molecule. This sends the bacteria into an iron-starvation mode that ramps up their production of ammonia, the form of nitrogen that is usable for plants.
Scientists identify a plant molecule that sops up iron-rich heme scienceblog.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scienceblog.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Bria King If you are a person interested in pursuing a career in STEM, it’s important to not “feel boxed into pursuing a medical or engineering degree”. Just ask Vincentian scholar, Abigail Scott, who recently graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a perfect 5.0 GPA (grade point average). “STEM is so much more diverse than we make it out to be here,” Scott told SEARCHLIGHT in …
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