After years of work, an international team found evidence that a once-independent nitrogen-fixing microbe has become a permanent resident within algae cells
In two recent papers, an international team of scientists describes the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell, which the researchers are calling a nitroplast. Phys.Org reports: The discovery of the organelle involved a bit of luck and decades of work. In 1998, Jonathan Zehr.